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Day 6

Today we drove over to the Chalk Cliffs and then to St. Elmo, CO. St. Elmo is a cute little town... almost a ghost town. We drove through and turned back around. It was Saturday and the roads were quite busy with folks bringing their ATV's.

We stopped at a wildlife viewing area. (meadow) I just happened to snap a shot of a group of Big Horn Sheep running through. Looks like mama's and baby's. (Below)

Below: Some of the Chalk Cliffs.

Below: Cascade Falls

We then drove back to Clear Creek Reservoir, but it was all drained. So we headed on up to Winfield, Colorado which is an old mining ghost town. The traffic on this normally secluded mountain road was awful! I've never seen so many people on this road before. We used to own mine claims in this area and lead many field trips up here. Turns out that we ended up driving amounst 600 people who were running in the Leadville Trail 100 Race "The Race Across the Sky".  We heard later that Lance Armstrong was in the race. If I knew, I would have looked for him. The race is 50 miles with the lowest point being 9,200 ft and the highest being 12,600 ft along forest trails and some mountain roads. It was a public road so they couldn't stop me from driving on it.

After all that fun we went out to a great Mexican restaurant. They even had John Denver's motercycle in the bar... but I wasn't at all compelled to go look at it. I could care less about the guy. I drove on the interstate that they named after him days before... who cares. I was amazed that they named the road after him. Oh well.

When we got back to the camper we were blessed with another rainbow. We saw a lot of rainbows on our advantures.