Fires Above Boulder

Our Labor Day Weekend culminated in a wild fire.  Thought to have been started by a car running into a propane tank, it has now consumed >10,000 acres and is still not under control.  Close to 100 homes also burned, some belonging to fire fighters.

Taken near out home about 15 miles from the fire.  Making for some very nasty air also........

Weekly Volcano #36: Return to Piton de la Fournaise

We will just squeak in with the weekly volcano..........

Looking inside the main crater....

Where on of the scientists later demonstrates sampling techniques from active lava flows

Peru Creek: Ending the Day

We'll end our journey as the light fails.  For more of Peru Creek visit Longs Peak Journal.

Peru Creek #5: Towards Argentine Pass

Around the corner and over the ridge was another famous mining district at Argentine Pass.  We'll take a look at that area next week.

Peru Creek #4: Tram System Station

You can see the traces of the rails that carried the ore out to the tram.  Here it was dumped into the tram cars and carried to the mill.

You can see the tippings from the mine above the tram station.  Tippings are the waste rock adjacent to the mine entrance.  Tailings are the leftovers from the Stamp Mill process.  In some cases early mills were so inefficient that the tailings could be reprocessed for ore metals.