My Cripple Creek World

GOLD COUNTRY REALTY

333 E BENNETT AVE

CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO
My New Digs on the Main Drag in Cripple Creek! This photo below is obviously before i got the sign placed on the window!

Here in Cripple Creek this summer you just never know what is gonna come down the road! I sit here in my office at Gold Country Realty and watch the world drive by, and sometimes I am lucky enough to get pictures. Today, Saturday, July 26 happens to be the National Day of the Cowboy. In honor of this day, the local Saddle Club out of Woodland Park, Co had a commemorative Trail Ride from Cripple Creek to Victor, Colorado, through some of Colorado's most spectacular mine country. Take a look browse the photos and enjoy!

These are some friends that I horseback ride with.

Thats it for now, I am waiting for the Trail Riders to come off the hill at about 10,000 ft elevation and its lightening and raining out, and the train whistle is a blowin and echoin through the mountains and valleys! Its another beautiful day in the High Country!

Happy Trails, Carrie

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Summers in the Creek

So, summers here are spectacular and to add to the fun we sit around all winter long and think of things that we would like to do in the Summer! Take Summerfest, for instance; a 3 weekend long blitz of activities starting off with the Chile Cookoff over June 20-22. We had 30 cooks come in and demonstrate their ability to cook some ass kicking chile, while we demonstrated our ability to cook up some ass kickin' margaritas!

After that weekend and we had all recouperated from the hot fired chile and margaritas and salsa, we have Donkey Derby Days. This is a great 3 day event full of fun for us up here in the high country.

We kicked off the event with a Steak Fry cookout complete with Dancing Girls and Can Can acts, Mae West showed up as well as Annie Oakley and some really nefarious charactere, Wild Bill, Buffalo Bill to name a few. Saturday's fun starts with a great parade with marching bands, and every kind of vehicle we can muster to show up here including the pooper truck which is also known as our local septic pumper. Donkey races commence through town where we make tourists perform all kinds of tricks while dragging or being drug by a burro to the finish line and the 200.00 prize! Smack through town, too!

4th of July was a lallapalooza! 40,000 folks paraded through town and got entertained at the stage, showed off their hair legs and white legs and enjoyed home made ice cream. We had 2 eves of fireworks! I went home and slept! I was tired!

Our next events are Veterans Appreciation days, we have a parade then also, its in August over the 18, 19 & 20th, so be sure to come up and salute our awesome Veterans. Check the Cripple Creek website for better information, my dates may be off. We have a General coming to speak as well as other military dignitaries and we really appreciate what you Vets do for us and our country! (http://www.cripple-creek.co.us/)

Well, till next time, I am trying to keep the batteries in my camera in good shape, but over the Big 3 Summerfest weekend I did not have time to take many photos!

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