silver cliff

The Great Sand Dunes is right across the Sangre de Cristo mountains from were my dad was brought up in the Wet Mountain Valley. But there's no road through - you have to go down around the south end of the mountains and come back up the other side. (Westcliffe and Silver Cliff are only one mile...

Cutler Hall - Colorado College (Geology then - Administrative now) Palomar Hall, Colorado College with basketball court C.W.T.Penland "Penny". Dr. Bill Penland got his Masters in botany at Harvard and taught at Colorado College for two years before he went back to Harvard to get his...

My father was born December 1904 in a ghost silver mining town called Silver Cliff. Silver Cliff is in the Wet Mountain Valley between the Wet Mountains on the east and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (part of the Rockies) on the west. Wet Mountain Valley looking toward the Sangre de...