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Parade Kick-Off779 viewsThe main event began at 10 AM on Saturday, October 26, a bright, sunny, calm morning. That was fortunate, because the next day wasn't so favorable.
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Tormented Rocks778 viewsHere the white striations are vertical rather than horizontal, and there is a large round "plug" in the rock in the center of the picture. Crazy, eh?
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Cumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022777 viewsCumbres & Toltec RR, Oct. 7, 2022
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The road goes ever on and on776 viewsAnd winds up the hillside too.
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Royalty775 viewsThe festival queen and her court.
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Craggy Landscape774 viewsThe crag on the right resembles a boraching whale. Note the big rocks in the road.
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Marble Canyon Flora774 viewsA bit of scrubby vegetation clung to a precarious existence in the dry bed of the canyon.
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CIA773 viewsThis used to be the Christian Brothers Winery.
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Guardian of the Gate771 viewsJoAnn directs traffic in the narrow entrance to the next stretch of Marble Canyon.
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Banded Rock771 viewsI don't know how much marble was in Marble Canyon, but there was a lot of colorfully banded rock in the canyon walls.
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Vintage Truck771 viewsThis pre-WWII Chevy truck belonged to the Forest Service. They used it to fight fires and rescue porcupines stuck in trees.
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Out of the Past770 viewsGold miners - the last of a dying breed. Dying from mercury poisoning, that is. This bunch was so addled by the mercury they use to extract gold that they didn't realize they were actually mining iron pyrite.
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