Karma Catches Up

My task completed, I packed my bags, loaded a spare fuel tank and set off at 4:00am for Colorado. “Nothing without providence” proclaims the state seal of Colorado and with a little providence I was hoping to find abandoned mines, mills, and ghost towns with no prior research.

These explorations involved a substantial amount of legwork through the San Juan mountains, all the while carrying my gear on my back hoping for photo ops.

When I played the Oregon Trail as a child I never gave a second thought to cutting the wagon train down to meager rations when funds ran low. Camping in the San Juan’s on a pack of saltines and a can of beans a day gave me time to consider how decisions made so casually by a third grader could result in this terrible e-karma.

Are meager meals and ice cold mountain run-off baths worth the treasures I might not find? As long as I live to tell about it...

Ore Lift Historical Image:

-2012-
sleepwalking
new chapter

-2011-
like sedona?
torn in two
blink
bridge to nowhere
door
hitting the wall
elusive 2
elusive 1
ascenders
voyage
hole
icarus

-2010-
revisited 2
revisited 1
which way?
the pit
treasure
narrow
snowfall
chute
false floor
monolith
crack
freeze
slice
bunker
beckon
treasure
resolution

-2009-
goodbyes
undercurrents
casting the bones
mountain thief
the deer hunter
strange temple
sanctuary
burial pt. 3
burial pt. 2
burial pt. 1
scarlet fever
rebirth from hell
forsaken
the lower depths
underground lake
stretch sewer
crypt
still waters
shadow movements
meager rations
sw pt.8: geothermal + ending
sw pt.7: lost gold mines
sw pt.6: big tube caves
sw pt.5: gold!
sw pt.4: el calderon caves
sw pt.3: redondo
sw pt.2: ghosts
southwest adventure pt.1
the river
dark salvation
reflections
dreams
the underdark
night odyssey
beginnings