Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 14hA walk through an aspen grove on Rabbit Ears Pass, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 070
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 29/09/2026Finding 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 051
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 28/09/2026Many of the temporary structures in the mountains around Black Hawk, Colorado were made of stone, possibly because so much wood had to be used as shoring for mine shafts and tunnels. #kali #kuvasz #dogs #colorado #ruins #history #photography 030
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 27/09/2026It 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 3182
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 26/09/2026A nicely preserved steam boiler sits next to a rapidly decaying hoist house at a mine near Idaho Springs, Colorado. #colorado #ruins #history #photography 060
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 25/09/2026When 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 0120
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 22/09/2026It 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 0100
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 21/09/2026It 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 721013
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 20/09/2026Even 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 070
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 19/09/2026In early summer, a combination of aspen and pine trees fill the valleys south of Buffalo Creek, Colorado. doughayes.pages.dev/photospheres #colorado #scenery #photography 0284
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 18/09/2026Ordinarily, 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 181
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 15/09/2026The 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 060
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 14/09/2026Water dripping down from above has created ice columns that look like stalagmites in a mine tunnel near Magnolia, Colorado. #colorado #photography 0100
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 12/09/2026One 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 050
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 11/09/2026Segment 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 0242
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 10/09/2026I 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 060
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 09/09/2026I was wondering about that when I posted, and apparently it's because of its vaguely diamond shape, and being named by miners. 000
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 09/09/2026On the shore of Diamond Lake in early fall, near Eldora, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 116518
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 08/09/2026Even 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 0131
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 07/09/2026In the Dinosaur National Monument, west of Craig, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 040
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 06/09/2026Because the tunnel had collapsed long before, Kali didn't get very far when she decided to seek shelter in this mine near Tolland, Colorado. #kali #kuvasz #dogs #colorado #photography 090
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 05/09/2026This hoist, that I found at a mine near Eldora, Colorado, can be powered by hand or by animals by putting a long lever in the bracket. #colorado #artifacts #history #photography 040
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 04/09/2026Seoul, South Korea #korea #seoul #travel #photography 070
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 03/09/2026I 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 21157
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 02/09/2026This 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 080
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 01/09/2026I 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 090
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 31/08/2026For 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 071
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 30/08/2026While 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 181
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 30/08/2026Yeah, it's like they have an expiration date or something 010
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 29/08/2026This 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 1150
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 28/08/2026Moss creeps up a mineral stained rock face on a mountain near Breckenridge, Colorado. #colorado #textures #photography 071
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 27/08/2026Along 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 080
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 26/08/2026Looking north from an unnamed ridge at 13,370 foot Mount Guyot, near Breckenridge, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 060
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 25/08/2026This is one of the better preserved of several dredges that dug up the valleys around Breckenridge, Colorado in the search for gold. #colorado #ruins #history #photography 0110
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 23/08/2026Near the top of Raleigh Peak, with a decades old burn scar visible to the south, near Buffalo Creek, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 051
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 22/08/2026If anything, blowing snow and frigid temperatures gave Kali superpowers during a hike above Silver Plume, Colorado. #kali #kuvasz #dogs #ruins #history #photography 040
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 21/08/2026I 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 020
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 18/08/2026One of several large beaver ponds on Jefferson Creek, northwest of Jefferson, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 0101
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 17/08/2026Rubble 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 060
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 16/08/2026In Waterton Canyon, west of Denver, Colorado, where the five hundred mile long Colorado Trail begins. coloradotrail.pages.dev #colorado #scenery #photography 080
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 15/08/2026Looking 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 0101
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 14/08/2026In 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 091
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 10/08/2026The 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 181
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 09/08/2026Nearly fifteen years after several fires burned in Poudre Canyon, west of Fort Collins, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 0737
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 08/08/2026This 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 060
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 08/08/2026Thanks! The sun just happened to be in the right place. 000
Doug Hayes @doughayes.pages.dev · 07/08/2026Just below Chasm Lake on the eastern slopes of 14,251 foot Longs Peak, near Longmont, Colorado. #colorado #scenery #photography 1100
