{"id":602,"date":"2009-08-05T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T01:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=602"},"modified":"2009-08-05T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T01:11:00","slug":"being-a-leadville-tourist-1-aug-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/being-a-leadville-tourist-1-aug-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Leadville Tourist (1 Aug 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom came to Colorado to accompany me to my thyroid surgery.  She arrived on Saturday, at the Denver airport, where I went to pick her up.  On our way back to Crested Butte, we decided to check out Leadville- I place I&#8217;ve driven through countless times but have only stopped for gas or a quick bite to eat.  Today we experienced Leadville from a tourists point of view!<\/p>\n<p>The Mosquitoes, just outside of Leadville.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8710driftpk.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8710driftpk.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Historic Leadville.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8740lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8740lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8741lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8741lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8712house.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8712house.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8715lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8715lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8716lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8716lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8721lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8721lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mountain Oasis&#8221; has a yard full of skis \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8723lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8723lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8724mountainoasis.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8724mountainoasis.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the edge of town we arrived at the famed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matchlessmine.com\/\">Matchless Mine<\/a>, part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babydoe.org\/horace.htm\">Horace Tabor<\/a> legacy and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellensplace.net\/hcg_fac2.html\">Baby Doe&#8217;s demise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8730lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8730lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8737lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8737lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8733lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8733lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drainage ponds are both beautiful and absolutely grotesque at the same time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8732lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8732lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bike path crosses through the mine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8735lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8735lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the bike path circumvents the entire city of Leadville, as shown in this map.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/s173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/?action=view&#038;current=IMG_8738lv.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i173.photobucket.com\/albums\/w74\/mtnbikerskierchick\/Leadville%201Aug2009\/IMG_8738lv.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leadville has a number of museums too, such as the Miner&#8217;s museum, Tabor Opera House, Tabor House.  I&#8217;d like to get back there and check these places out sometime&#8230; and bring my bike to enjoy the plentiful trails and roads to ride on in the area!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom came to Colorado to accompany me to my thyroid surgery. She arrived on Saturday, at the Denver airport,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}