We took more wedding photos at Oh! Point (above Engineer Pass, which is 12,800 feet in elevation) - there were some other people there to help this time, so they came out a bit better. I thought Devin looked a bit like a marmot in the photos from yesterday!!
We had been up over Engineer Pass before, the last time we were in Colorado, and it was a definite highlight, so we enjoyed going up again earlier in the year, when the snow was still all around. This time we didn't go all the way to Lake City on the other side, but went another way and explored Animas Forks, a very well-preserved ghost mining town, and Cinnamon Pass. We drove a ways down the other side of Cinnamon Pass in search of Handes, Sunshine, and Red Cloud Peaks, where I had been 30 years ago on a College trip! I climbed several "fourteeners" on that trip, and one of them was Handes Peak. It was impressive looking up at them from below - I think I found which ones they were from the pass, but since we were low on gas, we didn't drive all the way down to the trailhead area.
At the end of a spectacular day high in the San Juans, we descended into Silverton and a band was playing for us in the street! Well, they weren't really playing for us, but it sort of felt like it.
Rather than try to describe this day, below is a slide show, or go to our Picasa Web Album at picasaweb.google.com/devinandmaggie/EngineerPassToSilverton
- an exhaust system that not only increases power, but gives our model of RV 7% better gas mileage!
which has digital gauges letting you know fuel economy - allows you to figure out optimum driving speed/rpm for best mpg
lets us know what our tire pressures are at all times (keeping tires properly inflated can make a big difference in fuel economy)
(for filling tires using our batteries and keeping them at optimum pressure)
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