Zip Line Rider Lucy
Zip Line Rider Lucy
Zip Line Rider Maggie
Zip Line Rider Maggie
Zip Line Rider Paige
Zip Line Rider Paige
Chalk Creek B&B Black Bear
Black Bear crossing the Chalk Creek River into the National Forest
Chalk Creek B&B Drone Filght
DJI Phantom 4 launch from Chalk Creek B&B bridge
Incredible video of an Lammergeier attacking a goat. Its hard to tell which one is tougher the Lammergeier or the goat!
Fall Zip Line Rider Helen!
Fall Zip Line Rider Helen!
This will be the peak week for fall colors in the lower Chalk Creek Canyon!
The water flow is dropping in the north fork of the Chalk Creek, which drops the level in the beaver pond and makes it much easier to see the 30+ trout that are in the pond!
BV Strong an annual dinner for the Buena Vista community and how it has grown! Last year over 2,000 people attended, this year over 3,200 people attended. The event lasts a little over an hour with the simple concept of sitting down and breaking bread together.
The Town of Buena Vista provides tables and chairs and pulled pork sandwiches. Table host reserve a table for 8 and each table brings plates, utensils and side dishes.
WOW the Good Lord smiles on the event with a still, warm fall evening topped off by a beautiful sunset. A prayer of thanksgiving is said before the meal!
Community………. just being with each other and caring for one another……….pretty simple concept, but seems to be slipping away as part of the American dream!
The peak hit St Elmo a couple of days ago as high winds yesterday took the high leaves, but today was incredible!
Day with Den's sister Becky and her family. After throwing tomahawks we went to St Elmo. Guessing that the Aspen will hit peak next weekend!
Six years ago today our youngest son Joel married Amy at an outdoor ceremony at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort. Today they are celebrating their 6th wedding anniversary and having dinner at Mt. Princeton, while Nanny and Papa (Mostly Nanny) watch our 8th granddaughter and our 2nd grandson.
The Aspen are turning at and below timberline!
View from the Historic, narrow gauge railroad bed Grade in Chalk Creek Canyon - with a surprise!
The trail was once the grade for the Denver South Park & Pacific Railroad that traveled through Nathrop, St. Elmo, the Alpine Tunnel and Gunnison from 1880 to 1926.
Apple Fest at Turner Farm
Absolutely beautiful fall day and old-fashioned fun at the ‘Apple Fest’ at Buena Vista’s Turner Farm! It was great to see so many young families letting their kids experience what a life of hard work was like!
Picking apples from trees, basking pies, sawing wood with a two-man hand saw, washing clothes on a scrub board and hanging them up on a clothes line were just a few of hand-on experiences!
My parents and grandparents didn’t have time to complain about America! They were too busy building their little piece of the American Dream!
July 22, 2012 Paul Burge and I replace two logs over the north fork of the Chalk Creek with a bridge. Paul cut two 32' logs for the support and the planks at this sawmill, which is east of Saguache, CO.
September is all most magical, as summer relinquishes to fall, large animals are seen more frequently, mushrooms pop up overnight, the river is full from frequent rains and the nights are getting cooler!
Agnes Vaille Trail, closed in 2013, after a tragic rock slide took the lives of 5 hikers, all from the same family!
The trail has been reopened as a loop, which is less than a mile and takes about 45 minutes to hike. The trailhead is 7 minutes west of the Chalk Creek B&B. Agnes Vaille Fall is not very visible this time of year, unless it just rained on Mt. Princeton, then the fall can becomes very visible!
August 1979 on the Arkansas River by Buena Vista
