AtD translation: up past Smuggler

[Mike Jing]

Cool. Apparently the Smuggler Union Mine is in Pandora, right next to
Telluride.

Thanks, Jochen.

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

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> 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
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> Seem to be hills around mining camps which would fit.
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> 2018-05-13 2:40 GMT+02:00 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
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>> 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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