old photos 86-99

[ljplicease]

August 1983, photographer: grandpa (except for the few photos with him in it). The envelope has these four names scralled on it:

1. Pikes Peak
2. Bear Lake
3. Dean Lake
4. Chasm Falls

(there maybe errors in the transcribing process, of course)

I think these were taken on our first trip out to the Southwest, when we were living in New Haven, and therefore before we had any idea that we’d end up living there for nearly twenty years. I found these and plenty others while we were cleaning out the shack. I only did some minor spotting on two of the photographs, and colour correction on one small region of another where there was an unnatural green cast. They are in remarkably good nick given the age and how they were stored.

Comments

[smittenbyu]

wow ... great find! beautiful pics!

[butterflyblob.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous!

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these are wonderful, i really like the 3rd one after the cut.

[hammer-reality.livejournal.com]

The landscapes are crazy beautiful. That photo under the one with the Summit sign, are those train tracks? :s They look like something else but...whatever that ride would be, it'd be amazing and scary. *scared of heights* lol

Oh, and you haven't changed much. :D I look way different on my childhood pics.

[plicease]

Yes those are train tracks for Pikes Peak Cog Railway.

http://www.cograilway.com/

They have an extra rail of cog teeth to give it extra traction (I think that is how it works).

Pikes Peak is one of Colorado's 54 fourteeners (peaks above 14000 feet), so it is pretty high up.

[hammer-reality.livejournal.com]

Did you go on the train?

[plicease]

No. Apparently we drove up the mountain. I am not sure why.