[Rockhounds] Trip Report - Denver Area

[Glenn Wimpee]

Nice report. Sounds like you had a real good trip.
 
You gonna post some pics?
Glenn 



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> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com> From: Kreigh at tomaszewski.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:26:43 -0400> Subject: [Rockhounds] Trip Report - Denver Area> > My oldest daughter, Norma, moved to Denver last August for a job, along > with her husband, Brian. My wife, Monica, and our youngest daughter, > Grace, went with me to visit them in a quick trip this past week.> > We left Grand Rapids, MI, late last Friday morning and drove to > Lincoln, Nebraska, before finding a place to sleep. We arrived in > Denver Saturday evening. Sunday was family time to catch up, go to > Church, and watch some Olympics.> > Monday we visited the Colorado School of Mines Museum in Golden, toured > the Celestial Seasonings plant (they have a prairie dog preserve on > their grounds), visited the Coor's Brewery, and went to Lookout > Mountain to visit Buffalo Bill's gravesite and enjoy the views. I > highly recommend the Mining Museum, and their gift shop; I took a lot > of pictures of outstanding specimens.> > We also stopped at Red Rocks on the way back and saw an outstanding > rainbow (I hope the pictures turn out). On the way back we also stopped > at a great roadcut and collected millions of years of sand/silt stones > covering most of the colors in the rainbow. I'm looking forward to > learning more about the geology behind my specimens.> > Tuesday was the high point of my collecting trip. We drove to Pete > Modreski's house and loaded collecting tools into our van. I was very > pleased that Jane (a fellow Michigander) decided to come along. Pete > and I had been conspiring for months about this trip. It was a true > pleasure to finally shake hands with an old friend.> > Our first stop was a roadcut occurance of Sillimanite and Fuchsite. > Jane talked about the fun stuff on the other side of the road.> > We continued on to Harris Park where Pete's Club had a claim. I've had > better days, but good specimens of amazonite and smokey quartz were > collected. I am used to 500 feet, and collecting at 9,000 feet was hard > work.> > Supper at a Coney Island, serving elk and buffalo dogs, was a real > treat. The restaurant really was a giant hot dog in shape!> > On the way back we stopped at the other side of the road cut Jane had > identified. Cool Moly minerals, natural asphalt, sulphates, and a > normal fault from an old earthquake.> > While trying to get a good photo of the fault Dr. John Palermo (I hope > I got his name right) stopped to make sure we were not having problems. > He invited us to visit his property after finding out what we were > doing.> > Dr. John had a limestone quarry, and lime kiln, that supported the > original Coors brewery in making glass bottles (by providing the lime > for soda-lime glass). Pete and I had a chance to collect at a rare > location, and document an unusual historical site (I sure hope my > pictures come out). Dr. John's family was connected to some very well > known oil wells.> > The locality also supported an interesting artesian well, and an old > NASA tracking station (reused by a local TV station). Dr. John was the > next door neighbor to Adolph Coors. His children have taken over his > veterinary practice; I wish John was my neighbor.> > My thanks to Monica and Jane as Pete and I explored, and took pictures, > and collected specimens. It was a very long day! I'm glad we took the > long way back (thanks for showing me dinosaur tracks).> > Wednesday we hiked Falcon Mountain before starting the long drive back > to Michigan.> > It is going to take me many weeks to identify and catalog all the > specimens I collected (thanks again Pete!).> > Kreigh> > > -- > _______________________________________________> Rockhounds at drizzle Mailing List> Subscription Services:> http://lists.drizzle.com/mailman/listinfo/rockhounds> List Home Page, with a link to the List Usage Policy:> http://www.eclecticlapidary.com/Rockhounds/index.html

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