Doug Hayes
@doughayes.pages.dev
Boulder, Colorado
Finding ruins and artifacts is more likely around huge tailing piles like this one near Georgetown, Colorado, but making the climb always seems more worthwhile when there's at least an ore cart visible from below. #colorado #artifacts #history #photography It was a bit smokey and the grass was just starting to turn green north of Fort Collins, Colorado, but the landscape and flowering cactus still provided plenty of bright colors. #colorado #scenery #photography When I took this photo while on a hike near Nederland, Colorado, I thought it was just a weed with a nice flower, but I found out later that it was a Mariposa Lily. #colorado #flowers #photography It looks like this building north of Nederland, Colorado started out as a log cabin and was later expanded and improved with lumber and sheet metal. #colorado #ruins #history #photography It was hard to believe at this point during a long hike northwest of Boulder, Colorado that a large lake would soon come into view, much less that there was another small lake at the base of the peak. #colorado #scenery #photography Even though the roof was looking a bit thin, the main building at this homestead near Black Hawk, Colorado was still standing when I returned decades later, but the other one was flat on the ground and invisible in the grass. #colorado #ruins #history #photography In early summer, a combination of aspen and pine trees fill the valleys south of Buffalo Creek, Colorado. doughayes.pages.dev/photospheres #colorado #scenery #photography Ordinarily, Kali would have investigated this old house in the abandoned town of Cardinal, west of Nederland, Colorado inside and out, but becaue we were heading home after a long hike, she couldn't be bothered. #kali #kuvasz #dogs #colorado #ruins #history #photography The town of Cardinal, in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado, was moved a short distance from its original location to be near the most productive mines before it was abandoned. #colorado #ruins #history #photography Water dripping down from above has created ice columns that look like stalagmites in a mine tunnel near Magnolia, Colorado. #colorado #photography One of the houses at the Crossons townsite, near Pine, Colorado, looks modern because it was adopted and maintained by a fishing club soon after the town was abandoned. #colorado #ruins #history #photography Segment 4 of the Colorado trail follows the North Fork of Lost Creek for several miles in a long, flat valley near Bailey, Colorado. coloradotrail.pages.dev #colorado #scenery #photography I see a lot of old cabins with unusually low ceilings, many of which also have a small door, but this one near Leadville, Colorado has just been shrinking, as the upper logs dry out and the lower ones crumble into the ground. #colorado #ruins #history #scenery #photography Even though there was a lot of mining in the area, this cabin northeast of Leadville, Colorado was on its own in a valley, and had some pens for animals, so it might have been a homestead. #colorado #ruins #history #photography I didn't see any animals at all during my hike to this small lake west of Empire, Colorado, but it looks like a lot of them go there to stand around in the water.
doughayes.pages.dev/photospheres #colorado #scenery #photography This cabin near Leadville, Colorado must have been built after the mine was well established, because one side is sitting on the tailing pile and the other side is on stilts. #colorado #ruins #history #photography I always know when I've come across a grouse because they loudly fly up into a nearby tree, but ptarmigans like this one south of Copper Mountain, Colorado don't seem to fly at all, and I've only ever heard them making quiet clucking sounds. #colorado #birds #photography For many years, wherever I went, I would see a lot of broken mine carts, usually without their wheels, but more recently I've been finding them fully intact and sitting on their tracks, like these two southeast of Frisco, Colorado. #colorado #artifacts #history #photography While columbines and paintbrushes don't necessarily always grow in patches, these two friends hanging out on a mountain west of Rollinsville, Colorado were the only two flowers in the area. #colorado #flowers #photography This was my first view of a small building near Eldora, Colorado, which except for the lack of windows, looks relatively new or restored, but it was actually quite old and it recently collapsed after a heavy snow. #colorado #ruins #history #photography Along with a tower halfway down the cliff, this was one of several cable car systems that extended into a canyon south of Minturn, Colorado. #colorado #ruins #history #photography I have never hesitated to seek shelter inside a mine entrance during a thunderstorm, but even though it looks like a good one, I can't imagine climbing up this ladder in a mine near Georgetown, Colorado under any circumstances. #colorado #ruins #history #photography Rubble from the steep mountainside above this steam boiler near Red Cliff, Colorado, will eventually bury it, or possibly roll it down into the canyon. #colorado #ruins #history #photography In Waterton Canyon, west of Denver, Colorado, where the five hundred mile long Colorado Trail begins. coloradotrail.pages.dev #colorado #scenery #photography Looking down at Paris Mill, west of Alma, Colorado, from a mine at the upper end of an aerial tramway that once transported ore down to the mill. #colorado #ruins #history #photography In the mountains north of Black Hawk, Colorado, a bright wild rose opens its petals to the world next to a faded one from an older generation. #colorado #flowers #photography The shafthouse that once contained machinery for the hoist is completely flat, but the headframe at this mine near Leadville, Colorado looks like it will endure for many years to come. #colorado #ruins #history #photography This cart was used to transport ore down a steep slope on wooden rails from a mine near Montezuma, Colorado, and it looks like it was custom made just for that purpose. #colorado #artifacts #history #photography This is the main building of a homestead and sawmill northwest of Lyons, Colorado, which seems to have been constructed out of scraps from the mill. #colorado #ruins #history #photography 
