Our guide John was excellent! He'd been driving 4X4 professionally for 32 years. He took us up into the Rio Grande wilderness on old logging roads & then up to the top of "Greyback Mountain", which is at an elevation of 13,000 feet!!
This is a creek that we crossed -- that was fun!
This is an old ghost town that we visited -- not a tourist ghost town -- an honest to goodness ghost town. Although the story is sad -- the area is contaminated with arsenic because of a millionaire that found a cheaters way to mine for silver. The government is now cleaning it all up (because the towns downstream from this area had contaminated water with hundreds of people getting deathly ill) -- because the millionaire fled to South America where he did the same thing there!! To this day, he has still not been prosecuted!
This picture was just after one of the scariest times on the trip. We were on a very narrow mountain road & got stuck on this tree. Darwin & John both worked to get us off the tree, without sliding off the road (which we slid several times & the road was VERY narrow!) We had two trees that caused us trouble & two boulders that Darwin & John had to move. Other than that, it was just trying to stay on the narrow little roads, without going over the side!!
The pictures at the top of Greyback Mountain do not do it justice -- we literally were surrounded by mountains on all sides -- nothing but mountain tops, with gorgeous valleys through-out!!
After we left the top of the mountain, we traveled down to a great little clearing where we ate lunch.
What a glorious day!
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