Teton Gravity Research Screening & More Colorado Kodachrome
In this week's newsletter: Updates from the Coloradotopia Archives Collection, what to do this weekend in the Colorado mountains.
1953 Million Dollar Highway Slide
Another Kodak Kodachrome slide has been cleared from the backlog and cataloged into the archives. This one shows the area near the Idarado mining complex along the Million Dollar Highway. Idarado was a WWII-driven effort to give a consolidated group of closed mines a second chance. It operated privately until 1978.
The first image above was scanned with a low-cost slide scanner, while the image below was photographed on a light table. Kodachrome slides hold their color extremely well; the scanner just doesn’t do a good job of capturing them. Even with small adjustments made to the scanned version, the photograph below still shows the slide’s colors much better.
The tailing piles haven’t changed much over the last 70 years. The photograph below was captured in 2018.
TGR Film Screening – Friday, Oct. 3 @ 7 PM
There will be a screening of Teton Gravity Research’s newest ski film at the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek tomorrow. There are still tickets available as of the time this newsletter is being sent.
More Weekend Mountain Events
Breckenridge Craft Spirits Festival
October 3–5
Mt. Crested Butte Fall Festival
October 4
The Handmade in Colorado Expo - Vail
October 3–4
DIA Mountain Shuttles - $75 off Denver airport shuttles w/ code “coloradotopia75” at Ridethepowder.com.