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Mayflower Gulch, Colorado

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  • Mayflower Gulch — A 6.1-mile round trip near Climax that's become one of Summit County's most photographed basins, thanks to an old mining cabin sitting below a wall of peaks. Wildflowers carpet the approach through summer, and it's mellow enough to bring almost anyone along — the cabin works as a strong foreground anchor for a wide shot, or isolate it with a longer lens against the peaks for a more intimate composition.
The Boston Mine in Twilight — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The old Boston Mine cabins sitting quiet under the Tenmile cirque at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado,…
The Boston Mine in Twilight
The Window the Miners Used — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The Tenmile cirque at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado framed by a cabin window that lost its glass more…
The Window the Miners Used
They Built for Keeps — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A hand-hewn log cabin with a sagging roof still shrugging off the drifts at eleven thousand feet in…
They Built for Keeps
Taking Another Winter on the Chin — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The Boston Mine cabins taking another winter on the chin at Mayflower Gulch, Colorado, with…
Taking Another Winter on the Chin
Best Picture Frame in Summit County — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. Hand-hewn logs framing the snowy basin the miners came to Mayflower Gulch for in the first…
Best Picture Frame in Summit County
Mayflower Does Not Ease You In — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The sky over the Tenmile cirque going full crimson before the sun ever showed itself at…
Mayflower Does Not Ease You In
December at the Boston Mine — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A lit Christmas tree standing beside the old Boston Mine cabin under a clean night sky at Mayflower…
December at the Boston Mine
Still Doing Its Job — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. The same window the Mayflower Gulch miners looked through every morning, still framing the same…
Still Doing Its Job
The Between-Seasons Look — Mayflower Gulch, Colorado. A creek cutting through a tangle of red willows with fresh snow on the banks and green spruce up the…
The Between-Seasons Look