Never call 911/Never/This means you/HST

[John Kierein]

http://tinyurl.com/djwy9

Edit: Use this link to avoid registration.
http://tinyurl.com/3qw86

I'll be in Mt. Crested Butte just over the mountain when this shot is fired. Maybe I'll hear it.

[sarongsong]

an invitation to join dailycamera---

[hhEb09'1]

an invitation to join dailycamera---It's a Boulder CO newspaper. John, a few more details next time! :)

[Taks]

john, what he means is that we have to subscribe to get to the article...
so what's in crested butte worth visiting when there's no snow?

taks

[Gillianren]

also, my browser seems very uncertain that it wants to connect to that page. seems to distrust the encryption.

[Musashi]

They're launching Hunter Thompson's ashes into the air, or something.

[Swift]

They're launching Hunter Thompson's ashes into the air, or something.
Oh! And I thought HST stood for the Hubble Space Telescope.

[John Kierein]

Here's a better link that doesn't require registration.
http://tinyurl.com/3qw86

Mountain biking is great and the wildflowers are spectacular. Nothing better for the ego than hitting a golf ball at 9,000 feet. Great hiking trails, too.

[Taks]

gotcha... we're doing steamboat lake whenever we can manage to actually get out of the house and avoid rain all in the same weekend. it just won't stop (another storm yesterday...).

i never really got into HST. i suppose because i was still young when he was wildly popular. also, i don't read much that's not of a technical nature.

taks

[Gillianren]

I've always found "and then I did this weird thing while I was on drugs" to be tedious at best. still, he inspired Ambassador Duke, and that's worth something, right?

[AGN Fuel]

so what's in crested butte worth visiting when there's no snow?


Is this a location, or an affliction?

[Taks]

Is this a location, or an affliction?
it's a killer ski resort...
taks

[sarongsong]

They're launching Hunter Thompson's ashes into the air, or something.http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/images/050821gonzo-sendoff.jpg (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20050821-1253-thompsonmemorial.html)
Reuters

[Maksutov]

On the road between Gunnison and Gothic, by which one passes through Crested Butte, you can see off to the northwest a beautiful vista of Carbon Peak (http://www27.brinkster.com/n99904/images/West_slope/Carbon_peak.jpg). The mountain from that perspective, with its symmetry and well-defined summit, looks as though it had been designed by an artist.

I bushwhacked my way to its summit back in August of 1968. Of course bushwhacking is a lot easier in the West than it is in the East. A beautiful mountain.

[John Kierein]

We went past Gothic to Emerald Lake which is a nice green color especially when viewed from above. Spectacular wildflowers including many columbine, which, although they are the state flower, are fairly rare. Went on to Schofield pass and made several sidetrips. This is some of the more specatular country in Colorado and generally untouched in Gunnison National Forest. Also took the lift to the top of Crested Butte - great views from 12,000 feet.
The tiny town of Marble (pop 86) has the Yule marble quarry. The hike is worth the trouble to look into it (it's like a cave at nearly 10,000 ft.) and see some of the purest white marble around. This marble is 99.9% pure calcium carbonate and was formed from fish bones from an ancient seabed that was squeezed by an overlying granite. It is about 200 feet thick. It's on private property which charges $5 per person honor system to get access. (You put your money into the red pipe.) Then you get to climb a somewhat tortuous trail to get to look in, going through the big marble cubes cut from the quarry. You are allowed to carry home some of the pieces that you can hand carry out, but it's pretty heavy.