Place Attachment and Identity

 

Home for me, and the place that I am attached to is Crested Butte, CO and Gunnison, CO which is about 30 miles down the road. I grew up here both of my parents worked on the Mountain, which is also how they met. I was born on Gunnison County Hospital in 1990, and lived in the town of CB until I was about 15. This is home for me because I feel more comfortable around big mountains and snow, than big flat area. Mountains are the most solid thing in the world. I feel at home here because I have so many childhood memories here, my name Hasley come from a basin in this area, and my Father still lives here. The greenish building the in lower right hand corner of the picture is the town school where K-12 attends; my father built the town bank, as well as the white house in the lower middle section of then picture, plus numerous other structures in town. This is a olderish picture because the school has already been remodeled, but there are several things that exist now that are not shown in this picture. The mountains shown are Gothic MTN where the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab is, they do super cool stuff there.  The predominant peak in this picture is Cinnamon Mountain, and the one disappearing up on the left of the picture is Red Lady, where my Godmother died in an avalanche. so many memories, that what make this home.