Gold Belt Tour
Phantom Canyon Road Part 1

Lots of big cottonwoods here so there's obviously a good, steady water source available. That chunk of granite sticking up behind is heavily eroded but it isn't what you'd call "glacier carved," glaciers leave much steeper and smoother faces than that. The wavy lines in the rock do show evidence of great heat and pressure at sometime in the far distant past. Notice that the pines are still getting larger and there's starting to be a few blue spruce and Douglas firs in the mix.

I'm sitting here at my computer writing these cute little blurbs under these photos of gorgeous mountain countryside and it occurs to me: there's just no way that I can convey to you, the reader of my drivel, what it felt like to be out in the middle of that wild and wondrous place. Somewhere down the road from now you're simply going to have to stop dreaming and come here to see it and feel it and know it for yourself. I'm trying to do my part but, in the end, there's no substitute for standing on this sacred ground yourself (and I don't say "sacred" lightly) and having your own experience of it.