On Saturday, June 27, we took the Royal Gorge train trip. The train follows an old line that follows the Arkansas River through the Royal Gorge.
A gorge is deeper than it is wide. A canyon is wider than it is deep. That's why it's called the Royal Gorge and not the Royal Canyon. At one point, the Royal Gorge is 30 feet wide and 1,000 feet deep.
We took the lunch train. The menu was not very large, but the food was good. I had the beer flight to accompany my lunch. The beers were: Royal Gorge Route Rogue (San Luis Valley Brewing), Laughing Lab Scottish Ale (Bristol Brewing), Citradelic Tangerine IPA (New Belgium Brewing), True Blond Ale (Ska Brewing). I had a full glass of the Citradelic IPA during the trip back. Jan had the Holy Cross Abbey wine flight with a Chardonnay, Vigonier, Merlot, and a Syrah. She had a glass of the Chardonnay on the trip back. For food, I had a turkey, bacon, and Swiss sandwich while Jan had chicken nachos. Eating lunch took us all the way through the gorge and to the turnaround point. On the trip back, we took our drinks and went to the open air car and watched the gorge go by.
The Arkansas River runs through the Royal Gorge. It is a Class III, Class IV white water river. This makes it very popular with kayakers and rafters. I only put a couple of pictures of rafts and kayaks, but there were a lot on the river.
On Sunday, we took a road trip. I wanted to see the dinosaur quarries and Jan wanted to go to Cripple Creek. The dinosaur quarry was the first stop.
Back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, there was a big boom in dinosaur fossils. A guy named Marsh started pulling out fossils here. This brought in another guy named Cope and he started digging too. It quickly turned into mutual sabotags. They eventually chased each other through the west trying to out do each other. The pictures are of Marsh’s quarry.
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