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Off Road - Idaho Springs and Surrounding Area



Time to get out of the house and take the risk of going out amongst the populous. Not really, we did brave I-25 and I-70 though, traffic was pretty light.  We loaded up my clean Jeep that has been parked in the garage for a month now and got it all dirty on Oh My God road in Idaho Springs.  It is little early to go off roading, there is still a lot of snow in the high country so we had to take a lower elevation route.  We have been out here a couple times, it is a nice easy trail that ends up in Central City.  There is also a lot of cool gold mining stuff to photograph.  We happened upon a cemetery at Russell Gulch - pretty cool.  Not sure how we missed it on previous trips? We are always keen on shooting cemeteries. That is the great thing about exploration, finding new things around the corner - hey, where does that road go?

Camera: Olympus OMD EM1 III





When off roading there are always side routes and sometimes we get turned around but this time we found Russell Gulch. Oh, yeah, we have been here before! There are a few ruined building and debris and the funny thing is that the area is home to a disk golf course.  We just watched 'Abandoned' by Vice, and the host of the show is a skater who reports on abandoned places and then rides his skateboard in the ruins.  I guess that is a thing.  While I was shooting I was thinking, would this be good for skating - maybe not, not a lot of hard surfaces. Sweet ruins!  Glad we found it again.

This is the stuff really like to shoot!













The trail ends up on the outskirts of Central City at the Coeur D' Alene mine.  I have shot this before, lots of cool rusty stuff.  I focused on the texture this time and processed in black and white for a different take on it.















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Location: Idaho Springs, CO, USA

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