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SWISS AMERICA CRUISE - 6/18-26/16 - PAGE 5 OF 13

Cruise Hosted by Doug & Glenda McMahan

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Photos labeled DBC-06/16 were provided by David & Becky Clark

Photos labeled DOC-06/16 were provided by Doc Lambert

Photos labeled RCG-06/16 were provided by Robert & Cydnie Geyer

Photos labeled WNMP-06/16 were provided by William Nolan & Mary Pittman

Photos labeled FMP-06/16 were provided by Fred & Margaret Proctor

Photos labeled SRW-06/16 were provided by Steve & Rhonda Weible

Photos labeled Visit MACs Digital Art & Photography Website provided by Doug & Glenda McMahan


DAY 5 - Wednesday 6/22

Today - there was NO DRIVING THE CORVETTES
Some enjoyed breakfast at the Palmer before heading to the train station - everyone was on their own to get to the train station
Doc testing out the small elevator in the General Palmer Hotel
this morning was an early one since we had to be at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Train Depot at 8am to pickup our tickets for our Trails & Rails Adventure Package
 
    
we walked over to the meet location for the shuttle
    
  we rode a Mild to Wild Shuttle from Durango
to Silverton - Frank was
our driver
 
    
 The Cobra club that is staying in Durango came up behind our tour bus - Frank allowed them to pass us 
    
even in the bus, the ride up the Million Dollar Highway was great; Frank (driver) made it even more fun and hilarious at times  
    
We made a few stops along the way

This one was to enjoy some great views.  It was also to look down into the valley at the cars that went off the cliff and that were left down there
 
 not much left of most of the crashed vehicles & motorcycle ...others could be identified at least as being a pickup or car 
    
  
    
our last stop before Silverton was at an overlook

...it also had a pit stop facility
 
   
    
   

The TRAILS Part of Our Excursion 
 
once in Silverton, we met up with our Off-Road Tour; Frank was one of our three guides (for our 3 vehicles)
    
    
  
    
a short ways out of Silverton, we spotted a young Moose getting a drink of water 
   
    
then we spotted a beaver home  the old ore trolley still hangs above head when you go out of Silverton
    
then we came to our turn-off; time to head up the mountain 
   
lots of streams
coming down out
of the mountains 
more wildlife 
    
our first stop along the climb to the summit was a historic house  
    
  
   
 the river behind the house was running
swiftly
 
 a three story house (guess a 2-1/2)

the photos right / right bottom were taken
from the 3rd floor window Doug is standing at 
   
    
 The house had a great view ...with the river behind it  
    
on up the road, Frank told us a story about this shack that he played at when he was a kid 
    
Frank picked a handful of flowers and shared that this was the state flower of Colorado
He gave each of the ladies in our vehicle one 
    
 time to head on upward on the mountain   
    
 Next stop was at a waterfall - Frank said if you looked closely, you could see a rainbow effect due to the large volume of minerals the water is exposed to 
 
Hear and See the Waterfall
    
time to head on up the mountain 
    
waterfalls were almost everywhere you looked 
    
our final stop was at an old silver mine which also had a large volume of snow

great group photo time
 
 
    
 
 you couldn't see much of the abandoned silver mine ...the tracks ran into the small hole under the snow - which had water coming from it  
  
    
 we had to turn around here since the snow was still 3+ feet deep over the road  
    
  
    
we hurried down the mountain after the guide was warned of a storm brewing. 
Needless to say, we did not get back to town before the storm hit us. 

Good thing they had canvas tops for the jeeps it did help a little - unless you were on Doug's side
of the vehicle - rain was coming in diagonally
  
   

Back in Silverton
  
After returning we were on our own for a couple of hours to enjoy Silverton and to grab lunch - most ate at the Bent Elbow
    
  
    
 we watched as an earlier train left for Durango

each train is composed of different passenger
car/coach types - most offer the
gondola (open) cars and 1st Class coach
    
    
  
    
 At 3pm we were at the train depot ready to board our train to return to Durango 
    

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