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Mary Murphy Mine - Colorado

One thing about Colorado...you can easily find a place to go off roading.  If you see a dirt road without a fence or no trespassing sign, you can basically drive on it.  Try that in California without getting shot.  Since pot is legal here, I guess nobody gives a rat's ass anymore.

Had a hankering for a off road experience so we grabbed our trusty 4x4 off roading book and found a trail that leads up to an abandoned mine called Mary Murphy Mine.  And they call it a mine...

The decay is in good shape.  Good shape meaning that it is still there, the place isn't trashed and people pretty much just go there to check it out and leave it as they found it.  The only trash that we found were car parts off of vehicles that tried to make it up a road that is intended for off road 4x4s.  Dumbass.

Here is a shot of the trail.  The picture does not do it justice.  The Rubicon had issues getting up this hill.  All four tires were spinning.  Had to back down and take the left side of the road to make it up.  Best part was there were only two other vehicles.





Farther up the road, we reached the end of the road and ended up at Pomeroy Lake.  The lake is at an elevation of 12,416' making it one of the highest natural lakes in the state of Colorado.  It is things like this that me want to never leave the state.  Fuck California.  All this stuff is in our backyard.  Yes, our backyard is that big!  It takes three hours to go through it in any direction.  So there.


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