Weather, rugged terrain hamper progress over the pass

Photo courtesy John M. Motter
The Born’s school stood in the upper part of the San Juan River West Fork before Wolf Creek Pass was built. The one-room building doesn’t seem to have any windows. The teacher, Miss Darling, is third from the left. The children are those of the Dutch Henry Born family living at Born’s Lake and the Chapson family.[/caption]

We continue from last week with a first-person account of the first auto trip over Wolf Creek Pass when it opened in 1916.

“When we got down into the flat lowland, there was no road at all, just mud and water-soaked trails, each driver making his own guess which set of workmen’s wagon tracks to follow through the willows until he could connect with the next section of ascending road up the mountainside.

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