Re: Durango, Trout Lake and To-Hell-You-Ride
| July 14, 2009 08:41PM |
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Commander, Sir -
At least the Durango, Trout Lake and Telluride was plotted on a map ...
Actually, IIRC it took at least two of my USGS quadrangles - Engineer Mountain and Trout Lake(?), and maybe even a third - to show the route from the tail of the Rockwood Wye*, up along the west side of the Animas Canyon and then northwest along Cascade(?) Creek, crossing to the north side on a high trestle about where the ski area is now, with about a 170 degree left turn on a trestle just downstream from the waterfall (with a STUNNING view thereof), and then south-southwest along one of those wide ledges upgrade toward SlideRock Ridge, thence through a tunnel with about a 120 degree right turn back to the northwest, and then down past the scree slope and along the ridge to the tail of the wye at Lizard Head.*
This route to was planned to be used as a summertime-only shortcut during the peak of the lumbering, mining and tourist seasons. It would have saved nearly 75 miles detouring through Mancos and Delores, and would have been THE scenic line of the West!
- Russo
* Obviously, the DTL&T had arranged trackage rights from Durango to Rockwood on the D&RG(W) and Lizard Head to To-Hell-You-Ride on the RGS ...
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you [will] have ceased to live." - Mark Twain
At least the Durango, Trout Lake and Telluride was plotted on a map ...
Actually, IIRC it took at least two of my USGS quadrangles - Engineer Mountain and Trout Lake(?), and maybe even a third - to show the route from the tail of the Rockwood Wye*, up along the west side of the Animas Canyon and then northwest along Cascade(?) Creek, crossing to the north side on a high trestle about where the ski area is now, with about a 170 degree left turn on a trestle just downstream from the waterfall (with a STUNNING view thereof), and then south-southwest along one of those wide ledges upgrade toward SlideRock Ridge, thence through a tunnel with about a 120 degree right turn back to the northwest, and then down past the scree slope and along the ridge to the tail of the wye at Lizard Head.*
This route to was planned to be used as a summertime-only shortcut during the peak of the lumbering, mining and tourist seasons. It would have saved nearly 75 miles detouring through Mancos and Delores, and would have been THE scenic line of the West!
- Russo
* Obviously, the DTL&T had arranged trackage rights from Durango to Rockwood on the D&RG(W) and Lizard Head to To-Hell-You-Ride on the RGS ...
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you [will] have ceased to live." - Mark Twain
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