And a million other things as well...mostly done by Robert, the hero.

Watch this one with a cuppa.

It's always an adventure going up the road! And it's been even more of an adventure during the road construction. But the final product is a joy to travel! And to think that the original Mineral King Road was built in the 1870's using manual labor, draft animals (horses and mules with freight and grading wagons), basic hand tools (picks, shovels, and rock drills), and blasting powder/explosives to carve a shelf through the rugged granite and steep canyons of the East Fork Kaw

But this is just about GETTING there!!! Lot of joy in the mountains to come!

Sometimes the world is a lot. Gelson's makes it feel better.

A labor of love.

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What you can't see is that it was over 90 degress at 9:00 a.m.! We curtailed some of traditional activities like the corn stalk train ride because it was blistering hot!!!