{"id":14,"date":"2014-07-04T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/happy-fourth-of-july-from-dillon-co_4\/"},"modified":"2015-05-04T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T12:40:01","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july-from-dillon-co_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July from Dillon, CO — Part two"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHappy Fourth of July from Dillon, CO — Part two <\/div>\n
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\nFriday afternoon, 
\nJuly 4, 2014   (second post of this
\ntravelogue)<\/div>\n
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\nOne day we took a guided tour of the reservoir on a pontoon
\nboat.  The guide was a volunteer of the
\nSummit Historical Society (left in photo). 
\nThe boat \u201ccaptain\u201d is left of Pat in the photo.  The tour focused on the history of  the dam. 
\nThe captain took us around an island that had nesting Bald Eagles.  An amazing tour.<\/div>\n
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\nWe spent the better part of a day in Keystone.  It is a really neat little town that looks a
\nbit like a European mountain village. 
\nThe best activity was riding the ski lift up to the top of the main ski
\narea.<\/div>\n
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\nThe first photo is going up and the second is going
\ndown.  It was a beautiful day for the
\ntrip.<\/div>\n
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\nThis is the view of Dillon Reservoir (link to website)<\/a> from the top of the ski area.  The elevation at the top was 11,640 feet.  The Dillon Dam crest is 9035 feet.  The maximum designed level of the water is
\n9025 (opening of what is called the \u201cGlory Hole\u201d that controls the maximum leve)l.  When we first got here the lake was a few
\nfeet below the Glory Hole.  The water is
\nnow fairly close to the rim.  A few additional
\nDillon Reservoir facts:  The surface area
\nis a bit over 3200 acres (when full) and the height of the dam is 231
\nfeet.  It is owned by the Denver Water
\nBoard and was built in the \u201860s.  The
\nwater is diverted from this western slope location to the east slope via the
\nRoberts tunnel which is over 23 miles long and 10 feet in diameter.  Both the dam and the tunnel recently
\ncelebrated their 50 year anniversary.  <\/div>\n
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\nWhile at the top of the Keystone ski area, Damon and Molly
\nmade a tube run on this hill.  The
\npicture is deceiving.  Right after I took
\nthis picture, they disappeared over the hill and dropped a few hundred
\nfeet!  Nothing like snow tubing in July!!  Damon also went snow skiing at Arapahoe Basin
\non the last day it was open (6\/22 \u2013 second day of summer)!!<\/div>\n
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\nThat is all for now.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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