When we last met our friends “Down Along the Arkansas” (Collegiate Peaks Volume 1), we were on eastern side of the Collegiate Peaks. Now, this recording takes us up and over Hoosier Pass for a day trip before we check out another area further south along the mountain range. They’re partying it up on the banks of the Blue River south of Breckenridge, where the hillsides look upon Quandary Peak and Mount Lincoln and only rare hot Summers bring a snow melt.
Once, in the early 1970s, I lived up in the tiny hamlet of Blue River, a few miles south of “Breck” up on the side of the Pass. It was an idyllic Summer, A-Frame-hippie Life at its finest, sharing consumables and the odd shower with friends! Each day began by stepping outside the cabin to relish our own little Eden, fresh mountain air, the aromas of evergreen trees all around us and wafts of delicious meals and campfire drifting between the trees from other encampments. On a typical day, we would hunt through the verdant forest floor in search of edible mushrooms, go to town and select some fresh produce at the farmer’s market outside of the requisite health food store, enjoy a beer at a local pub and later, and party the night away after enjoying the fruits of our labors around a campfire and howl at a baleful moon. We might even climb to the top of Amanita Mountain!

Sounds include:
“Jazz Me Blues” - Original Dixieland Band (1921); Luigi Rusollo’s “Serenata” (1921); a piece of music composed by a Freesound contributor called “An old vinyl song”; a British Railways 4mt-2-6-0; sounds of Peak Rail in Derbyshire, UK; and an Emmentaler steam train blowing its baleful whistle.

Credits:
Thanks to YouTube, OpenCulture .com, and Freesound uploaders msfx, konkaboom, and zozzy.

All artwork on these pages are ©️ 2020 Samuel Bissell