For the past 4 weeks, Steamboat Springs has been hotter than I have ever seen it. Almost the entire month of January and February has been sunny, warm and muddy. I guess global warming is not a hoax! Seriously though, we are like 100 inches behind schedule and in need of some snow!! That being said, I grew excessively bored of boarding over rocks so I decided to take a trip to Denver to visit some old friends and the fam. Goin back to Denver was a great time but that is not what this post is about. This post is about Buffalo Bill's grave and how cool I didn't think it was.
Last Monday I left the Denver house a bit early to make it back for my math exam. Clocking good time going up I-70,
I noticed I had hours before my math test and I wanted to do something Iv never done before. As I continued down the road I noticed the sign for Buffalo Bill's Grave and Lookout Mountain. I must say I have seen that exit sign hundreds of times but never even took the effort to check it out. I have always been to busy to get to Summit County or Steamboat to even care but that day I had nothing to do for a while... so what the hell I said, I took the right at the sign and head up the road! About 7 miles up the road I eventually hit the destination. The sign "Buffalo Bills Grave" was a dead give away. Anyway the first place I checked out was the free museum they had at the top of the hill. At the moment before walking into the museum, I had no info on Buffalo Bull whatsoever. All I knew was he loved buffaloes. WOW was I wrong! According to the museum, he had nothing to do
with buffaloes. that is a total misconception. He was a jack of many trades and one in particular he was a bison hunter. Bison are similar to buff
aloes and thats where his nick name was screwed up. Besides that, he didn't even really like bison. He was estimated to kill over 4,000 bison in his lifetime! Not only that he was a performer, a rebel, a prospector and a tradesman. Lived a very successful life and upon his death, he wished to be buried on Lookout Mountain. Little did I know that lookout mountain overlooks everything! Literally everything! The pictures of lookout mountain inside the museum were insane! I had to check it out for myself.
When I left the museum, I bolted up the hill to the view spot of lookout mountain. WOW is all I could say. I literally could see everything! Except in real life! haha. I was able to see the tiny city of Denver, all the way past my house to Castle Rock, to all the way north just before Fort Collins! Such an incredible view it was. No wonder Bison Bill loved this place so much. I would want to be buried there too! I was so pissed that I didn't have a quarter to put in the binocular machines because everything was so far away I had a hard time seeing thing clearly.
After I checked out the view I took off down the path to check out where this dude was buried. I must say, the way they set this up was depressing. It looked like a tourist attraction to me. Gates around the grave, pictures, plaques, the whole nine yards. I felt kind of bad taking pictures of his grave because that would be the last thing id want people doing to my grave if I was him. But I had to so I could share them with the rest of the world :) Anyway here is a pic of his grave. And my awesome Suby.
So what was the lesson learned today? Well considering I got to see an incredible view, learn about Buffalo Bill and see his awesome grave, id consider it a day well spent. If you ever have the chance to check the place out, I recommend going at night time. The view would be killer! Perhaps I will go at night another time and show you?
C ya!
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