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Trotter wrote:Good article. I didn't realize Quandary wasn't named until the 1960s. I'm surprised a bunch of miners were still there. Did they maybe mean 1860s?
I think you may be right. The survey marker was placed in 1951 if I'm reading this correctly:
Trotter wrote:Good article. I didn't realize Quandary wasn't named until the 1960s. I'm surprised a bunch of miners were still there. Did they maybe mean 1860s?
Yes.
"A couple more shots of whiskey,
the women 'round here start looking good"
Challenger was named after a crashing disaster. Which also describes my descent.
Challenger is also thought to be an old Indian word meaning 'mountain of %#$#% marbles'.
"Quicker than I can tell it, my hands failed to hold, my feet slipped, and down I went with almost an arrow’s rapidity. An eternity of thought, of life, of death, wife, and home concentrated on my mind in those two seconds. Fortunately for me, I threw my right arm around a projecting boulder which stood above the icy plain some two or three feet." Rev. Elijah Lamb
I’m a bit surprised that people don’t know about challenger. That situation was a mess. The engineers said no to the launch and management forced it through. My dad was co student presidents with a guy who flew on the flight before and after challenger.
Trotter wrote:Good article. I didn't realize Quandary wasn't named until the 1960s. I'm surprised a bunch of miners were still there. Did they maybe mean 1860s?
has to be because i remembered looking that one up before my climb in my book
"As early as 1861 the silver outcroppings at the head of the Blue attracted attention and companies were formed and commenced developing some of them, the Brooks Silver Lodge at the head of McNulty Gulch for one. Quandary Mountain, covered with bits of silver ore was staked off and claimed in patches and what was called the 'Quandary Lode' was hunted for with enthusiasm. 'In the sixties a party of miners discovered some metal on what is now known as Mt. Quandary and they were unable to determine the character of the ore. It was a quandary and the mountain received its name in this manner."
ok that makes much more sense.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
Tory Wells wrote:My favorite Colorado mountain name: Mount Silverheels. Legend says that a dance hall girl nicknamed Silverheels worked in a mining camp near Fairplay called Buckskin Joe. Her real name is unknown. During a smallpox epidemic in 1861, she stayed in the camp to nurse sick residents. She too contracted the disease but survived. Some of the survivors raised money to give to her but when they went to her house to gift it, she was nowhere to be found. Instead, they named the nearby mountain in her honor.
Even more interesting, dance hall girl was a common euphemism for a prostitute back then. So a mountain named after a whore.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
