Stuff legends are made of

Stuff legends are made of In the low light of moing is a view of an Indian warrior girl, followed by screaming. The sun is still rising. In the twilight joining a miner. They live in all the "Circus", ten minutes in the moing and two at night. The sun kisses the edge of the "Circus" and shadow are the cast of lost souls still lurking in rocks and hills above Scout Ranch in Bear Creek Canyon "circuses" are formations that resemble an amphitheater. Are circular basins of glacial valley, where the heads to be used. Sunday shares qualities with the glacier. As the glacier melts and moves downstream, plucks pieces of rock in the rock and take the hill on which leaves the basin known as a "circus." When the sun heats up and moves across the valley, plucks the spirits cast their shadows on the edge of the basin. In the first 30 of a miner and his son to study for gold here living in abandoned cabin hours. Near the opening of a three wells beckons.To previous travelers headed to Santa Fe, Taos, or the rugged west of Las Cumbres Spanish or Spanish Peaks sentinel was driving his route. Firmly planted in southeast Colorado are among the most important landmarks in the Southwest. Picco has served as a pastor? S mound driving Indian, Spanish and French, and the first at all points of settlers west. Early Indian tribes of the mountains called double Wahatoya (Breasts of the World). Flowery religious connotations of the designation of origin of the gods of rain and the deposition of the treasures of God. " It is said Aztecs were aware of these mountains of treasures of gold and believed to be hiding there. The geologists that there is probably from the rock granite is quartz abundance.Part of the Santa Fe Trail, "The Taos Trail" passes to the north of the Spanish Peaks along the orphan, and Oak Creek over the Sangre de Cristo to the transition San Luis Valley and south of Taos. The usual way, Bent is isolated near the old fortress LaJunta, Colorado (the mountain) or through Southwest Kansas (Cimarron Crossing, or "dry cutting"), south-east of Santa Fe. explorers and mountain men like Kit Carson, and "Wild Bill" Hickock, and Zane Gray has crossed the three miles from Walsenburg area.About up Bear Creek Canyon Road, we passed the remains of Cameron, a town of 1900 Coal Mines . And 'now a ghost town. Back to the day from three to four thousand people is about all that remained of the foundations of concrete. If you are hiking around in search of India? Picto-graphs. Along the winding road lavet "dams" is looming on the horizon. Million years ago molten magma forced into fissures of the rock and is now exposed through erosion. Dikes radiate from the peaks, such as man-made plinth and fences vary in height from a few hundred meters to more than 14 miles. Many go on Highway 12, the best known is the Devil's staircases and passages Rock.Another Profile phenomenon occurs in certain weather conditions. Strange formations of clouds around the peaks and appear to be layers of pancake-shaped, sometimes four or five. Sometimes the storms roll in and out so fast you might think that was a tropical storm. Peaks are completely dark during one of these storms. Trees are a beating Pelt and with such force that it would be? Believe in Walsenburg, plugs Colorado.Volcanic dot the landscape. Be sure to drive south of La Veta Goemmer to see Butte. Plugs were formed by underground volcanic activity, but has never reached the surface erupt.Further south on Highway 12, one sees the wall Dakota - a formation of sandstone, from Mexico to Canada and nicknamed the "column spine of the Rocky Mountains. "The whole area is a geological treasure. Gold panners still groped their luck. You can try Indian Creek Trail. I took a quiet, peaceful place that way, but the river on Saturday and reflected in the calm after the storm through.Not performed only the stories of the legendary Spanish Peaks a site to visit, but the geological formations are just a treasure. While in Walsenburg, select a leader and guide visitors to the hills. There is much to see. You can not find any gold, and you may lose the spirit of India in "Circus", but whatever you do, do not miss the only Colorado Alligator Farm. The visitor is guided path. Only in the mountains of Colorado, right? Linda? S is contained in the letter of praise to joy, Beischel, Xlibris Press, 2000, and I like traveling, writing, design, decoration and painting. Linda has long studied through writing Ridge Writers Group in Connecticut and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Loveland, Colorado, United States of America.