Camp Hale, CO / LeadVille, CO / Vail, CO

We camped in Camp Hale were a militar division was trained for World War II. The only division that has ever been trained for cold weather, ski, climb.

Marks post in his facebook “Camp Hale info. 14,500 soldiers were trained there for winter warfare along with 5000 mules and 200 dogs. 990 soldiers were killed and 4000 were wounded. These were very high rates which indicates the extreme situations they were put into. 10th mountain soldiers went on to found Aspen, Vail and other ski resorts.”

We have done many things here at LeadVille. We went to town because we don’t get signal at the campground and Mark worked from a nice coffee shop. We also went to the National Mining museum which had an area set up like inside of a mine and were scary, noises would turn on when you walked inside, it seemed more like a hunted house.

One of the days we hiked to fancy lake, yeah that is the name. Not sure if Mark knew how long it was going to take us. The previous day we did a small hike near the campground but this hike took us about 4 hours. Most of the hike was kind of steep. I got somewhat tired and ate my snacks and some of Marks. I almost didn’t go all the way to the lake. Once we got there it was beautiful but so sad we couldn’t stay and enjoy because it seemed that it was going to rain. We hurried up down hill. I was so glad to be done, i don’t think I was prepared for that hike.

Acampamos en Camp Hale donde una division militar fue entrenada para la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La unica division que fue entrenada para clima frio, eskiar, escalar.

The weekend was Leadville boom days festival. They celebrate the history of Leadville. They had booths and some people were dressed in long dresses like in old days. We just walked around and head to the matchless mine tour. You couldn’t go inside the mine because it was flooded for years but they gave us a long explanation and in the entrance they had water in a tank where you could panned gold. Mark loved it and were there for a while, he got a little tiny piece but hey, that was better than nothing. After that we went to the mineral belt trail which is 11.6 miles. Mark ran it and I rode my bike. It was most of it down hill. I ended up walking at the end up hill. After our workout we had pizza I baked oatmeal cookies and head out to look for elks. At the campground someone told us that around sunset we could find elks. We walked without luck until we saw a big dear from far away. Good thing that Mark had his binoculars because I can’t see that far. He was an 8 point buck.

Hemos hecho varias cosas aquí en LeadVille. Fuimos al pueblo porque no nos llega señal de celular en el campamento y Mark trabajo desde un cafe que nos gusto. También fuimos al museo national minero el cual tenia un área que parecía una mina por dentro pero medio macabra, mientras caminabas se prendían bocinas con sonidos, parecía mas una casa de espantos que un museo.

Uno de los días fuimos a un lago llamado Fancy Lake, sip así se llama. No estoy segura si Mark sabia cuanto tiempo nos iba a tomar en subir caminando. El día anterior seguimos un camino por el campamento y subimos a una loma pero esta ves nos tomo 4 horas. La mayoría del camino estaba medio inclinado. Me medio canse y me comí la comida que llevaba y parte de lo que llevaba Mark. Ya mero y no subía hasta el lago. Una ves que llegamos el lago estaba hermoso pero que triste que no nos quedamos a disfrutar porque parecía que iba a llover y nos apuramos a descender. Cuando terminamos estaba feliz de que hubiéramos terminado, yo creo no iba preparada.

El fin de semana estaban celebrando boom das en Leadville. Celebran la historia de Leadville. Tenian stands de comida y cosas y alguna gente estaba vestida con vestidos largos como en los viejos tiempos. Caminamos por un rato y nos fuimos directo al tour de la mina llamada Matchless. No se podía ir hacia adentro de la mina porque ha estado inundada por años pero nos dieron una gran explicación y en la entrada tenían un tantee con agua para que la gente buscara oro usando un tipo sopera. A Mark le encanto y nos estuvimos ahí por un rato, el encontro una piecesita minúscula pero eso es mejor que nada. Después nos fuimos a un camino de 11.6 millas. Mark lo corrió y yo fui en bici. Casi todo fue de bajada. Termine caminando al final cuando era de subida. Después de hacer ejercicio cenamos pizza y hornee una galletas de avena y nos fuimos a buscar eles. En el campamento nos dijeron que al ponerse el sol podríamos ver eles. Caminamos sin suerte hasta que vimos un venadote de muy lejos. Lo bueno es que Mark traía sus miralejos porque no puedo ver tan lejos. Era un venado de 8 puntos.