Location of shot

[Steve Headford]

Wondering if this area looks familiar to anyone. The caption on the back just says "C&S ng?"

Any help would be appreciated.

[Jeff Young]

I thought maybe coming down from Climax with Mt. Jacque in the background.  But the vegetation looks to be lower-altitude, and the mountain isn't quite right.

My next guess was Pitkin heading up to the tunnel somewhere, but Google hasn't penetrated that area so I don't know.  It doesn't look like anything from the Romley side.

Nothing in the Mosquito Range (out of Alma Junction or heading up to Leavick) looks right either.

[Chris Walker]

Jeff,

I waited to see what your thoughts were, since I got the last similar shot confused.
Are we looking at the climb up to Boreas from Breckenridge?  The topography, what can be seen is ill-defined and those Aspens lead me back to the Bacon area, http://c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com/C-S-Photos-on-eBay-tp8859p10566.html and subsequent posts.

[Jeff Young]

I don’t think it’s on the W side of Boreas.  That would have to be Bald Mountain, which has a much longer ridge-line.  Mt. Guyot looks a bit like that, but I think Bald Mountain’s shoulder would hide it from the grade.

What about just upgrade from Selkirk?  (Before rounding the corner so we’d be looking at Red Mountain rather than Boreas.)

[Chris Walker]

Was there prolific growth along side the tracks below the Windy Point side I wonder?  Jeff had mentioned the track around Bacon was 90lb rail, this track looks different.

The ridgeline and "foothills" reminds me of this at Windy Point but again the background is ill-defined.


Would someone please go drive and photograph the Boreas Pass road soon.

[Jeff Young]

Windy Point is certainly heavily wooded now.  Don’t know about then.

[Chris Walker]

I was on the understanding that Rocky point is on the Breck side, Windy point is on the Como  and I was trying to illustrate the lower approaches since the conifers take over at or above these two locations.  The Ridge doesn't fit with the Ten-Mile area in my mind, there isn't that sort of gradient visible like in the OP picture.



Just how did the Forest service come up with the Rocky point sign shown in Jeff's picture?

[Alex Hois]

While looking for views from Windy Point towards Goose Pasture Tarn and Breckenridge ski resort I stumbled across this picture. The shape and snow pattern on Peak 10 (3rd from the left) match the ones from the picture:

https://www.myrockymountainpark.com/road-trips/breckenridge-insiders-guide

Here's a google maps "photo sphere" from Boreas Pass road, you can zoom in and out...
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4527435,-106.0207214,3a,15y,258.57h,97.9t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPrzOLur105li7auAYeliqzm6GWeYyreGj_H9g!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPrzOLur105li7auAYeliqzm6GWeYyreGj_H9g%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya187.94592-ro-0-fo100!7i8704!8i4352

So it looks like it's uphill from Windy Point. Stretches a little above and below Baker's tank seems to line up with the view.

Alex

[Steve Headford]

Alex that's amazing that the snow patterns look almost identical as they were back in the 1940s. Any idea what that mountain is called?

[Jeff Young]

Ha!  For some reason the perspective in the picture made me think it was looking up-hill, but I think Alex has it.

(The name of the mountain is Peak 10.)

[Don Gustavson II]

The more I see pictures of ties made like these, the more I want to try that out. Got some hand laying of track coming up.

[Alex Hois]

Today I drove Boreas Pass looking for the shot. The best match was just below/west of Argentine, or marker 11 of the Boreas Pass Auto Tour, see https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5210494.pdf.

I could quite line it up since nowadays becasue of the aspen closing in, so I had to get closer to the curve.



Alex

[Chris Walker]

Thank you for doing that Drive for those of us at some distance, Alex.

[Kurt Maechner]

I hope you all don't mind, but I love before and after shots so I took the original and Alex's photo and made a quick video of the two transitioning from one to the other.  You can see it here.

I hope you enjoy it.

[Jeff Young]

Hi Kurt,

What’s the soundtrack?

Cheers,
Jeff.

[Kurt Maechner]

Hi Jeff,
My wife and I film and produce cinematic wedding films and to do so we have to license music.  We have a subscription with a music-licensing site named Song Freedom which is where I picked up the tune.  The song is called "Leila (instrumental)" by Arcadian Wild.  I don't know the band well.  I just searched for songs that used the banjo and liked this one! :)  

[Jeff Young]

Thanks, Kurt.  They're on Qobuz so I checked them out a bit but sadly not much of their stuff is instrumental.  You definitely picked one of their highlights!

Cheers,
Jeff.