We found many old mines and long ago retired equipment. We even came across a few active mines. Not sure what they mine today, but I'm betting precious metals still ranks high.
Ooopps,here we all standing around again. Probably trying to figure out just where we are and how to get to where we want to be. But it could have been a potty break...
Look, we weren't the only wild turkeys in the area. We came across deer and mountain goats as well. The mountain goats were so far away that my picutes are blurry, so I am not going to share them with you. Although I never saw any, there are elk also. Marysvalle, when not hosting ATVers, is a hunting mecca.
On one ride we came across what I expect was a summer cottage for the high meadows grazing area of a cattle ranch. It was a very scenic setting and probably at about 10,000 feet elevation (nice and cool in the summer).
And here you see us chasing each other down a mountain road. One might even suspect that this curving old logging road was fun, and it was.
Of course we are equal opportunity trail riders, so Jake rode along with us. He wasn't a very good driver, but he sure let us know when cows were in the way (arf, arf).
Marysvalle was really a great area in which to ride. There are trails going in every direction and you could ride to a half dozen little towns in the area. There are trails for all levels of skill, from dirt roads to steep and treacherous. We often road above 10,000 feet and our longest single day ride was 93 miles. There are special allowances for ATV's on the city streets and on most of the county roads, so we could ride our ATV's right out of our campground to almost anywhere within a hundred miles, and never had to take the truck.
It was a good week!
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