How One Settler’s Stone-Ridge Tunnel Protected His Cabin During the Whiteout of ’63
Автор: Mountain Chronicles
Загружено: 2025-11-25
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In the winter of 1863, the deadliest blizzard in Rocky Mountain history buried Eagle Valley under forty feet of snow, crushing every cabin and killing over two hundred settlers across Colorado Territory—except for those who fled to Magnus Eriksen's underground tunnels. The Norwegian immigrant had spent three years constructing an elaborate system of stone-arched passages and chambers after losing his wife and daughter to an avalanche in 1859, obsessively engineering a shelter that could withstand any amount of snow. While neighbors mocked "Eriksen's Dungeon" as the paranoid project of a grief-stricken man building unnecessary underground rooms, Magnus methodically quarried granite, calculated wind patterns, and created ventilation systems that would maintain air flow even under complete burial. When the Whiteout of '63 struck with unprecedented fury, his stone tunnels became the only functioning shelter in the valley, protecting thirty-one refugees for eight weeks while every surface structure was obliterated, proving that sometimes the impossible preparations of one traumatized individual can become the only hope for an entire community.
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