even though we had a big bike race this weekend in salida we still had time to do a little exploring around the area. on sunday morning we took a drive up chalk creek canyon to the ghost town of st. elmo.
i was very let down. i guess i was hoping it would be like that brady bunch episode, and would be really exciting. it wasn't exciting at all. no ghosts, and no bradys.
there was this mannequin in the window that looks like a ghost, or it could have been bobby brady.
there are some hot springs in the canyon, but we opted not to join in on the fun. it looked pretty unsanitary in that pool. i think i saw a baby ruth floating.
this is the chalk cliff run off. it runs right by the road, which could be quite scary in rain. just a little history lesson here: it isn't actually chalk. it was formed by kaolinite leaching up from hot springs through cracks and faults millions of years ago from the base of 14,197 foot mt princeton.
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