Haunted at Timberline Home

At 14,229 feet, Mt. Shavano is one of Colorado's Fourteeners. In the Shavano townsite virtual tour you can see the west side of the great mountain rising behind the one remaining cabin at timberline. The same cabin is also shown in the opening photo. The right photograph below shows the view of the empty but vast 120-acre Shavano townsite from the main window of the cabin. Shavano's south peak, at 13,630 feet, shown in left photograph below and in the virtual tour of a smaller mining site, cannot be seen from the Shavano townsite. This latter virtual tour was made on the east side of the peaks. Mt. Shavano and the surrounding mountains are rich in Ute Indian lore, mostly related to the appearance of the "Angel of Shavano" during snowmelt each spring. Shavano was a Ute Indian chief. Mt. Shavano and her south peak are majestic wonders, still filled with gold, silver and lead, waiting for a time when it might again become economical to mine these metals. The bottom photo shows both peaks, the Shavano angel between the two peaks (the valley is her body, with wings outspread, reaching toward the two peaks).