Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Tuesday, June 20,2017 - STONY PASS, BUFFALO BOY

As always, Click on the pictures to view a larger size. 


Charles & Jane arrived yesterday, so we went on a trail with them today.  Bonny & Ronny,  and Cathy & Larry also came along.  They wanted to take Stony Pass to Pole Creek again.  There's still not a lot of trails open yet.  We and Larry & Cathy went as high as Stony Pass and turned around to head back to town.  Once headed down, the guys decided we needed to go to Buffalo Boy (a side trail, less traveled).  We were not able to get all the way to the top, but Jingles did get in a second snow run. 

Here we are all lined up at Stony Pass.  Jingles played in the snow and Charles flew his drone.  It was pretty cool & windy today.


We didn't pack a lunch today, thinking we were coming back to town, but we always have enough snacks in the "snack bag" to get us thru.  When we decided to stop, this was our "lunch room" for today:


Here's the old Buffalo Boy tramhouse.  There was talk as recently as 2013 of re-opening mining operations in this area, but there was no sign today of any of this happening except for fairly new power lines running up the mountain. 

Coming down off Buffalo Boy, the trail gets pretty narrow in some spots:
And you really want to watch the big droff-off on this switchback:

 
Safely back home again!



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