Re: Expedition for fall colors and out of the way branchlines....

Earl Wrote:
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> From Rico we motored over Lizard Head Pass and
> down to Telluride. I hadn't been there for a few
> years and I don't think I've missed much.
> Telluride is a great example of how to ruin a neat
> old mining town. The RGS depot is surrounded by

Telluride always brings two thoughts to my middle-aged mind:

1) Thank you Dad for going out of the way so I could see it back in the early 70's when it was still an honest town.

2) Wasn't the guy who started the development in the 70's a refugee from Aspen who *promised* Telluride wouldn't be "another Aspen"?

last two times I've been in the area I avoided it like the plauge, condos down by the road jct and the level of traffic told me all I needed to know.

hank