The San Juan Mountains or Durango to Silverton on the Steam Train

Snowing in the San Juans, in May... I guess that is not an unusual event. A guy in Silverton told me that May is a schizophrenic month - you never know about the weather or the tourists.

The Durango to Silverton narrow gauge train line goes somewhat parallel to the San Juan Skyway up into the heart of the San Juan Mountain range from Durango to Silverton. The Railroad goes up the Animas River canyon, in some places clinging to its very walls.

My view from Coach Car 2

Silverton is a very small western mountain town that would like to still be mining (the last operation closed in the early 1990s), but is only there now for tourism. It at 9130 ft above sea level, so when it started to snow, I should not have been surprised.