Views from camp

[RGINN]

Camped off the beaten track about 3 miles east of Radium. There's this little knob I've seen from Trough Road across the canyon I always wanted to look at a little closer. Like everything else up here, 1/4 mile away as the crow flies and about 12 miles when you walk to it. Evidence of mining at the base, but they gave it up after an initial probe. Spectacular views on a fine day anyway.

 

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[bill_wabo]

Wow, you're lucky to look every morning at this scenery, incredible!

 

[VERDE]

Hey RGINN!! Thanks for the gorgeous photos!! Makes one feel as if they are standing there breathing mountain air!! Hope you're well!! Anyway, GOOD LUCK and GOOD HUNTING!! VERDE!!

 

[releventchair]

Great views.
Hardhat area around that base....

 

[Old Dude]

Very nice scenes. Keep the pics coming!

 

[RGINN]

Cool you noticed that relevantchair. I know very little about geology, but I was wondering how there was this what appeared to be a conglomerate glacial deposit below the granite formation. It wasn't at loose as it looked.

 

[tamrock]

I wonder why someone dug that adit? The rock doesn't look to have any kind of mineralization, but looks more of a course alluvium. Maybe they were going after a dry placer or someone dug a hole to bury something in it??. It looks like the kind of grown you could get by digging with just a pick and shovel, but still support the back well enough on it's own. I think you should screen out a bucket full of some finer material and go home and wash some of it down. If I had to guess how that big chuck of conglomerate got there, I'd say it was once part of a river that flowed from the "Ancestral Rockies". I'm speaking of the mountain range that was once here before the Rockies we see today. Long, Long time ago.

 

[austin]

Always great pics. Thanks for posting...