Treasure Mountain Bible Camp - CO 241

 This was our first SOWERS work assignment.  Lou and Linda Scheideman #3777

The GL(s) were Alan and Pat White.  

This was a beautiful location, wonderful camp and Lou had great teaching on how to drywall.  They worked on drywalling buildings that have had the building permit since 2006, and helping build new wooden cabins ( to replace the concrete teepees that need constant repair).  Pat and I helped in the kitchen, which is a very small place to feed up to 150 campers.  We had a good dose of dishwashing and cooking, and enjoyed working with the wonderful staff.

Lou, Linda,Alan,Pat

View from the top of the camp (the building is not finished)

The building with the permit from 2006

The outside of the kitchen area

End of day 1

Marble Quarry

For free time, continue up the road ( a mile or 2) to the quarry.

But, when you meet this massive amount of stone coming down the mountain as you are attempting to go up ----back down or get out of the way!

(this happened on the very first day!)

Other days, marble was being delivered to the camp.

A wagon ride to the BBQ lunch

Falling in love with the wonderful staff!

They have had to repair the concrete so often that the new cabins are being built.

Care  for the little ones while adults (at family camp) attend the classes.

A fun place, rewarding to help - Praise God!

Historic Redstone, Colorado and the Coke Ovens

 

249 Coke ovens were built in 1899, from the high grade of coal in the surrounding 

mountains.  At the peak, they produced 6 million tons of coal per year.  Much of it was used to build railroads.

90 ovens are still here today.  There are back to back ovens.

I was surprised by a deer running toward me, and of course, using the walking path.

Then she bounds over the top ridge of the ovens.

Examining the supports used to keep the mines from collapsing.

Up close viewing of the beehive ovens.

Within ten years of their construction the ovens fell into disuse when the mines closed. Their support steel was removed during the scrap metal drives of World War II, and later they were used as living space by hippies who moved into Redstone.^[

On the drive over to Paonia, this deer jumped in front of us, then  just stopped and stared.

Lovely way to end the day with some wine tasting.

MARBLE/marble

 

Since we had finished our work, we enjoyed being a tourist!

The Marble Gallery has some magnificent carvings

This one is $125,000

(nice addition to anyones yard!

Perhaps a smaller one for $4500.

Perhaps the entrance to your estate?

The local shop had these interesting things.

This stone is Honeycomb Calcite from Hannah, Utah

We were told that the sculptors love to work with this one.

Love this flower, don't know the name, but reminds me of the Columbine.

The annual Marble Symposium - gathers many artists learning to carve the magnificent marble, and spectators are free to wander through the 'open air' workspace.  

This artist is working with the Honeycomb Calcite

-yes, he loves working with it.

I was surprised at the variety of stones.

Even Jade??

Hmmm--

Creativity in action.

Progress toward the $125,000 mark?

All in all an interesting and enjoyable day.

Nice weekend activities, July 9,10,11

Always a little fishing!

The road leads up to camp and the marble quarry.

Notice the hunks of marble at the curve of the road.

Crystal River is crystal clear!

Hays Creek Falls, 

an easy viewing right off the road.

No, We did not scramble up the cliffs to see more!

Friends that we met on our Mexico tour joined us for a day in Marble.

They wanted to see Crystal Mill, so we went up for a second time.

Yes, the road is narrow and the drop-offs steep.

I guess the truck at the bottom has been there a very long time!

We ended the day with a trip to the quarry.

If you can carry it, you can have it!

On Sunday, we visited the local church with lovely stained windows.

Then we drove to Edwards for an art and craft fair.

Very high end, with many lovely artistic and sometimes unusual crafts.

For all my knitting friends, this booth had pictures made from yarn.

The eye has it!

The artist loves using her fine yarns for the birds.

For my gourd making friend (Nancy Cicutto), she would love this booth.

Many gourds use pine needles.

Since this one had both pine needles and yarn from Taos, we decided that we needed to bring it home.

A lovely weekend, and we are enjoying the area.