Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Valley of the Moon
Continued down Route 40 to Chilecito with a stop at the old mining cableway. This is some 36 ks of cable that go up into the mountains and was used to haul men and equipment in and the ore out. I was quite amazed to find that it was a bucket on-and-off system. Considering that it was made around 1903, this was amazing technology!
Route 40 then heads off into the hills and through an amazing canyon, then on to a flat plain for some hours and the Vally of the Moon. Dinosaur fossils were found here in the 1950s.
