Below Ophir Pass at just under 10,000 feet above sea level is the little town of Ophir, Colorado, an old mining town that still has life for those wanting to live off the beaten path, literally just below where the plows stop plowing....
photo cred. @zetrocer, cause I didn't want to climb out of the truck...
(though he has not opened his twitter feed to the public...hum?)
There is a "top of the world" feel on all sides of the town....
But the "village" below is lively and active, not the sort of mountain town for "tenderfoot's vacation homes...
There are a lot of young families living in Ophir. A lot of kids and a lot of dogs...
And a lot of snow equipment....
To protect the only way out of town in the middle of winter because...
it is below this...
an avalanche shut with it's own warning sign, already buried in snow...
Even without an avalanche there is a lot of snow and some place no one will get to until the Spring thaw.
Ophir's post office is on the other side of the danger zone...
nearer to Highway 145 that heads up and over another pass to....
to Telluride...
where most days there is "plein air" painting happening right in the middle of downtown...
But it is always the surroundings, high mountains covered in snow that end the glorious show.. when the ski turns pink and the sun starts to go down.
Cause there ain't nothing like the fading light in the high country in the middle of winter.
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