Sliding in the Snow in Kansas (and all the Rest of the US)

Your Black Canyon pic shows that to be a spectacular place, but on the map it's a long way from highways. But one of the pics appears to have the railroad or another highway on the opposite side of the Canyon. Could it be, perhaps, that this is Glenwood Canyon?

Also, Loveland Pass is reached well before this, and I think the photo you've labelled 'Road beside the mountains' is from the area West of Loveland Pass as well, somewhere around Wolcott, perhaps. In that region you're following alongside the Eagle River and the fledgling Colorado River.

by Ray Bell

I don't know why I labeled that slide (these are digitized 35 mm slide photos taken in 1964) as Black Canyon of the Gunnison. I think it was actually taken in the Hardscrabble on the way to Silver Cliff. So I've moved the photos.

The visit to Silver Cliff was not on the way to Loveland Pass. When we got to Brighton, Uncle Harry drove us around to the USAFA, to Silver Cliff and to the Garden of the Gods. Then we got back in our car and drove from Brighton over Loveland Pass. And basically the only way I have of knowing where photos were taken in 1964 is by using my memory of where we went combined with the number on the slide put there by the photo processer. I have the order the photos were taken in, but in those days the camera did not record the date and time. So you are probably right about the road beside the mountains, but there's really no way to tell. So I'm just going to leave it.

by greatgrandmaR

I once spent about eight hours on Google Earth confirming where I'd used a carwash in France. That was over several days, in the end I found it but it was tricky as the carwash had been rebuilt and doubled in size, there were just some clues in the background which enabled me to positively confirm it.

The reason I mentioned Glenwood Canyon is because it has the highway down one side, the Colorado River in the middle and the railway down the other side. Same as some parts of Clark Fork in Montana.

by Ray Bell

I am really sure that that photo was the Hardscrabble. I know I never was in Glenwood Canyon.

I wrote up the first trip with the 1932 Plymouth in 1964 and it was published in the 4 and 6 Cylinder Plymouth magazine. But for all the rest of the trips (1938 up to 2002, mostly all I have are b&w prints or the 35 mm slides and my memory or sometimes I can find letters my mother wrote or that I wrote to my mother at the time. I didn't have camera with a flash that put a date on photos until 1988, I didn't have a digital camera until 2000, and I didn't have a photo-taking cell phone until about 2014. Which means that I didn't have GPS locations on my photos before then.

Back then, when I took photos, we waited until we had taken a whole roll to get them developed and it might be a week or two until we got them mailed back. My sister found a roll of film that she took in 1970 and she didn't have it developed until 1990. But most of the time, it was less than that.

Mother and I developed a routine - we put the photos in order by the number on them, projected the slides and wrote where we took them, the number, what was in the photo and an assessment of how good a photo it was. We put this list in the slide box with the slides.

Then when we had time we would take each slide put it in order by the time we took it, and write a number on it, and put the number and the description in a notebook. We even had a system for categorizing the slides by subject - mountains, buildings, snow, etc. Each subject had a number and we wrote the subject numbers in the book and we had a file card for each subject which had the slide numbers that had that subject in them. Excellent slides had the corner clipped.

Starting with number one which for me was 1958 when I got my first 35 mm camera and going in sequence. I think I got up to the 9000s before I stopped numbering in the 1970s. My parents went up past 10,000 The numbers for this trip started at 2701.

by greatgrandmaR