What the heck is a stope?
I am rapidly nearing the completion of cleaning the Arctic Fox. I used a carpet cleaner on the carpet in the Arctic Fox yesterday, and it looks pretty good. Of course, it never looked very bad; I just felt the need to do it. So I may indeed have the Arctic Fox ready to sell by the end of this week.
I'm still hoping to go to Cripple Creek for the holiday weekend, and one of the reasons is that I have to cut the grass on my lot in downtown Cripple Creek before the city writes me a ticket for an unsightly lawn. Personally, I had always felt the lawns in Cripple Creek were always unsightly; it's a mining town, for Christ's sake! And digging for gold was all the town cared about.
Actually that's not true, the town passed a law in the mid-1890s making it illegal to mine any form of mineral in the city limits of Cripple Creek, they didn't want the miners borrowing under the town of Cripple Creek like mad gophers and having various streets and buildings fall into the stope. And even when I was in business there a doughnut shop across the street from me hit a small gold vein as they were digging a basement and they weren't allowed to remove the gold.
The town of Victor, about 7 miles down the road and on the opposite side of the caldera from Cripple Creek, had no such laws protecting the town, so buildings and roads occasionally fell into the various stopes.
Theboondork
Various ducks, cranes, and geese, at the Bosque Del Apache.
One of the many so-called "adventure" campers parked at the Bosque Del Apache. These truck campers sell for way north of one hundred thousand dollars and are advertised as being able to go anywhere and do anything, which just goes to show that you can hang the term "adventure" on just about anything and sell it for outrageous amounts of money. The fact is, I'm considering calling the Arctic Fox an "adventure" fifth wheel when I put it up for sale.
Boondocking at a campground outside the Bosque Del Apache in my adventure camper…. Being able to boondock in the dirt is one of the ways you can tell a normal camper from an adventure camper.