Creede panorama Virtual Tour

[rhartill]

Not sure how to embed this, but the url works....
After the MHA Conference, Crystal, Stuart and Mike tipped us off to a site just up the road from Creede's Underground Mining Museum. Brannan and I explored the lower section of Creede's Bachelor Mine loop tour and shot 165 pictures of the area and stitched it into a virtual tour using Microsoft Photosynth...

Photosynth gives you a rough idea of the awesome scenery and scale of the canyon and its mines and structures...

Check it out at:

http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=89eef562-badf-4b27-a925-9235df276dbf&m=false&i=0:0:48&c=0.108666:-0.838885:0.403363&z=469.696243528571&d=-0.69598835900583:-1.14928631899779:-1.79143758050286&p=0:0

[Mark1955]

Way cool Russ! I gotta go see this place. Is it still active.... the dump truck??? Funny thing is that some friends of ours were here Saturday from Colorado Springs and they were telling ua about this very place!!

Mark

[rhartill]

Alas Mark, the dump truck was due to EPA $$ being used to reclaim part of the riverbed below and to the W of the scene. A 9K long tunnel was leaching minerals and impacting the town. A few years ago, there was a collect-on-the-dump-for-a-small-fee operation in the area which we did not find during our visit; the scenery is incredible and it truly is a must-be-there-to-really-appreciate-it sort of experience. The air is fresh and clean and time actually slows down a little up there. We all came away thinking Utah ought to take a page from Colorado's preservation efforts and interprete more of our own mining heritage...but the canyon walls and cliffs around Creede are uniquely theirs and quite amazing.

[Stuart]

Very cool Russ! I will have to give you big points for representing such an awe inspiring place in a way that goes beyond a simple photograph and gives a sense of the magnitude of the canyon. I wish I could put everyone from MU on a big bus and let you all see how truly incredible the Creede area is.