The Bachelor Loop is the most promoted mountain drive in this area. From Creede, Colorado, the beginning is a bit steep and narrow but it improves, or so says the guidebook. I am not comfortable on mountain roads (heights) and that might be a good thing. I am not referring to highways with pavement and lines and guardrails and warning signs every fifty feet. What I mean is those dirt and rock things that, as Arlo Guthrie described, on one side mountain and on the other side cliff. Anyway, as I stopped to take a photo of the creek that the road was said to follow (creek was something between a waterfall and cascade). . . . .
a family car passed us, got stuck in a rut up ahead and, after getting free, passed us again going the other way heading for what civilization Creede might provide. Andy can take a hint and engaged four-wheel drive for the first time. Was it necessary? I can't say but I do believe it was prudent.
The "Loop" takes you past a bunch of old mines.
The road goes under the shed roof on the left side of the building. Moving along, another mine.
Dead mines to wild life.
AND, when above, at, or near, 10,000 feet the obligatory VISTA.
This was not on the "loop" but on a paved, sensible highway. Denise likes waterfalls.
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