AtD translation: up past Smuggler

[Mark Kohut]

boasted "the highest post office"...!!

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 5:36 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://books.google.de/books?id=z6_CCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT17&lpg=
> PT17&dq=smuggler+%22big+elephant%22&source=bl&ots=
> i2q2QrE-pv&sig=QFC2T5NjouzFp_8CF9UQVYvifA8&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjrmcvK-
> IHbAhWCIlAKHYXDB_8Q6AEIPjAH#v=onepage&q=smuggler%20%22big%
> 20elephant%22&f=false
>
> Seem to be hills around mining camps which would fit.
>
> 2018-05-13 2:40 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
>
> > P189.1-10   By the end, Webb Traverse had worked his way up to shift boss
> > at the Little Hellkite workings. Veikko and his squarehead compadres gave
> > him a party to celebrate, and as usual it reminded him that drinking
> potato
> > spirits all night is not for everyone. Luckily, the snow was still a
> while
> > off, or there might’ve been a repeat of last winter when he let some
> Finns
> > talk him into putting on a pair of skis, up past Smuggler, by the giant
> > pre-avalanche buildup known as the Big Elephant—scared the bejeezus out
> of
> > him, as it would’ve anybody in their right mind, all present being
> mightily
> > relieved when he fell down safely in the snow without breaking any bones
> or
> > starting a slide.
> >
> > Would "Smuggler" here be Smuggler Ave in Telluride?
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