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Grits And Butter
 
location:
Metro
Gender: Male
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< on 4/15/2010 8:36 PM >
|  | | | Reciently last month I took the drive and hike through the snow to Belden, Co. Didn't have much time to go into the buildings as for one of the water treatment men were in the area so heres ficks of the outside and the trek in.
http://web.me.com/...lorado/Belden.html
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Kbasa
    
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Gunnison/Crested Butte, co
Gender: Male
High Hopes
| |  | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 2 on 4/16/2010 12:06 AM >
|  | | | Belden (as far as I know) is the mill/mine area, Gilman is the town up top? correct me if I'm wrong...
Shut the fuck up and ride that fucking Couchmobile!
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Grits And Butter
location:
Metro
Gender: Male
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 3 on 4/16/2010 12:13 AM >
| | | | From my research Belden is the community where the Eagle Mine is located.
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digital_me
 
location:
Colorado
Gender: Male
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
| |  | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 4 on 4/16/2010 3:08 AM >
| | | | Posted by Kbasa
Belden (as far as I know) is the mill/mine area, Gilman is the town up top? correct me if I'm wrong...
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Right. Belden is the mining camp primarily around the Eagle Mine, at the bottom of the cliffs in the canyon. Gilman is the town at the top of the cliffs.
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robtastic
location:
central colorado
Gender: Male
Friends don't let friends HDR
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 5 on 4/16/2010 4:09 AM >
| | | | ah ok. i will have to visit both then  once it starts getting warmer and the snow melts a bit up in the mountains, kimbercules and i are planning a trip up there. your pictures look neat. i'm anxious to get up there.
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KalWin
location:
Longmont, CO
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 6 on 4/16/2010 2:13 PM >
| | | | apparently someone shut gilman down. They say the land is contaminated or something or other... so it might be a hike to get in to it, but so worth it.
I'm also planning on spending a few days up in that area here very soon. Thinking it might be better in the snow, less people to deal with
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robtastic
location:
central colorado
Gender: Male
Friends don't let friends HDR
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 7 on 4/16/2010 3:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by drewski
apparently someone shut gilman down. They say the land is contaminated or something or other... so it might be a hike to get in to it, but so worth it.
I'm also planning on spending a few days up in that area here very soon. Thinking it might be better in the snow, less people to deal with
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yeah, from what i heard it's been shut down for quite some time. a hike in is what i had planned.
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Quarantine
location:
Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 8 on 4/16/2010 4:17 PM >
| | | | The Eagle Mine was shut down by the EPA in 1984 due to excessive pollution and the town was ordered evacuated.
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Grits And Butter
location:
Metro
Gender: Male
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 9 on 4/16/2010 8:49 PM >
| | | | The last picture in the album of the trestle are actually the piping built by the water treatment plant to pump water out of the mine. So if your looking at the trestle and behind you to the left is were the plant is and the direction facing in the picture is towards Belman. Dont try and drive down there. I saw one of the two gates and its a doosie. They welded big 12 inch metal spikes on the front of it so if the gates rammed, your radiator or engine block is f***ed. Another thing, the treatment plant workers do go down there on the regular for water samples pulled from the mine and the river right about where the first tunnel is, so do look out and be careful.
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Akron
location:
Colorado
Gender: Male
Ab inferno te libera, ignave!
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 10 on 4/25/2010 3:19 PM >
| | | | Aw, you didn't get to see any deep snow huh?
But I didn't even make it this winter so you get a lot of credit for that. Most folks wouldn't dare go during the frozen months. As your photos show the area is plowed for subcontractors and EPA crews though, so they're the only other humans you'd be likely to run into...
Libera te tu temet ipsum ab inferis!
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Kbasa
location:
Gunnison/Crested Butte, co
Gender: Male
High Hopes
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 11 on 4/25/2010 5:33 PM >
| | | | I drove past Gilman on my way out of Vail and there really wasn't much snow up there this year, at least not in December. Summit and Eagle Counties have had a very dry year up until the end of March.
Shut the fuck up and ride that fucking Couchmobile!
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imprezawrxsti
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Portland, OR
Gender: Male
nothing is true; everything is permitted
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 12 on 4/25/2010 7:53 PM >
| | | | do i hear interest in doing a gilman run soon? i'm going to want to go when i get back to the States.
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digital_me
location:
Colorado
Gender: Male
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 13 on 4/25/2010 9:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by imprezawrxsti
do i hear interest in doing a gilman run soon? i'm going to want to go when i get back to the States.
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Ditto. I'm down.
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Quarantine
location:
Denver
Gender: Female
retired former old-school UE'er
| | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 14 on 4/26/2010 3:54 AM >
| | | | So I may or may not be making a trip back to CO anytime soon. Now looks like it'll be July, but Gilman is at the top of my list of places to return to when I go!
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digital_me
location:
Colorado
Gender: Male
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 15 on 4/26/2010 5:34 AM >
| | | | Posted by Quarantine
So I may or may not be making a trip back to CO anytime soon. Now looks like it'll be July, but Gilman is at the top of my list of places to return to when I go!
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Do it. You know you want to.
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KalWin
location:
Longmont, CO
Gender: Female
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 16 on 4/26/2010 1:38 PM >
| | | | I suspected that I'll make a trip to gilman when this semester is over. So in a few weeks. Bring a tent, I think I'd like to spend the night up there in the mountains.
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digital_me
location:
Colorado
Gender: Male
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 17 on 4/26/2010 3:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by drewski
I suspected that I'll make a trip to gilman when this semester is over. So in a few weeks. Bring a tent, I think I'd like to spend the night up there in the mountains.
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Better than a tent, just sleep on the roof of a building.
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junkyard
location:
LaCrosse, WI
Gender: Male
Strategic Beer Command where the metal hits the meat.
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 18 on 4/26/2010 5:07 PM >
| | | | Yeah last year the snow sucked, but that was a few thousand feet above Gilman. Akron, did it ever melt above the tree line last summer? We saw a truck burried by the London Mill. That was end of June!
I drink gasoline for breakfeast and beer for dinner!
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Kbasa
location:
Gunnison/Crested Butte, co
Gender: Male
High Hopes
| | | Re: Belden, Co
<Reply # 19 on 4/26/2010 6:27 PM >
| | | | Posted by junkyard
Yeah last year the snow sucked, but that was a few thousand feet above Gilman. Akron, did it ever melt above the tree line last summer? We saw a truck burried by the London Mill. That was end of June!
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There should be far less this year, its been dry up there until recently so there isn't much of a base.
Shut the fuck up and ride that fucking Couchmobile!
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