A page on twitter,
#coloradoday is collecting a lot of photographs of people having a great time along with expressing anticipation of visiting soon. A lot of offers by companies here too. Pride in being the first pub-brewery in Colorado, pride in serving good pub brew, codes offered for specials on products, photos and links to photos of killer landscapes, people crowing about hikes, photos of dance battles, photos of astonishing sunsets, bogus high dynamic range enhanced color sunset photographs, people standing on mountain tops feeling glory in being, the summit of passes, the crest of the continental divide, walking around on snow in July, just so completely well chuffed with being one with astounding nature.
People who've moved and are missing the place, like my brother. Too many photos of Colorado flags, fewer that are clever by accident.
Nice catch there. The chapel at Air Force Academy. Quite a lot of sincere pride and commitment to keeping the whole state beautiful. What a lot of beautiful young and enthusiastic people having fun.
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I am considering retiring there. Think Colorado Springs is a good place for that Chip?
Colorado seems nice - but I don't want to bump into a lot of Ex-Californians trying to do to Colorado what they did to the Golden State.
Plus, I hear the winters are pretty harsh.
First one is very cool.
Too many people are coming here and I'm staring to hate it. Go away.
I mean... get off my lawn.
(except for you)
Winters are cold, it's the high desert and our roads cannot handle the growth.
Conservatives and classical liberals are always welcome! random musings from the crazy lady.
Off to the high country for some much needed R & R tomorrow.
Last year's 14er was Mt Democrat. This year is a mountain that has been on my list for many years. Easy. (in comparison to other 14ers) Pretty. and far away in the San Juans. Handies Peak in the American Basin.
oooo. I'll take photos.
I was reading a trip report on 14ers dot com and a lot of complaints about trails being over-run with feces. Human poo. & Trash. This is not a CO thing. It's a CA thing. RCOcean is 100% correct-toemundo.
CA losers have no clue how to take care of things. Go away. (expect for those who are cool and get it. you know who you are)
wow. That first photo must be Mt. Umcompahgre on the right & probably wetterhorn and matterhorn.
Please don't tell me that's an Obama donut.
Looks great!
Live in Denver and get the best of both worlds--mild winters but one can easily get to the mountains to ski. Hell,I've played tennis on warm sunny days in the early spring in Denver while the front range was still covered in snow and the ski-season in full bore..
April- did not realize you were in Colorado? What is a 14er?
I love Colorado, but my favorite area (near Buena Vista) has a valley floor of 8500 feet or so and that's hard for me to acclimate to these days. (COPD) It's alongside several "14'rs" ...e.g., peaks over 14K feet high. Okay in my teens through the 40's, but not so much now in my 70's. I've climbed a few of them but those days are long past. None-the-less, it is a beautiful place and worth visiting if you can...few places there where awesome vistas are not prevalent. Beyond that, you can find history at almost every turn in the mountains there...my old favorite is the ghost town of Tin Cup, since less remote ghost towns (like St Elmo) have been developed. Spend a day in Tin Cup and you will find things you never imagined still existed as relics and remnants. Let your imagination wander about how the early miners managed on that steep slope where Tin Cup is located. And for a base stay at the Hot Springs resort on Mt Princeton, at about 9000+ feet elevation. Once you acclimate it will be worth every minute you spend there and above it in to the hinterlands of the Collegiate Range. Go in deep enough and you will find Tin Cup.
@Aridog/
Spend any time up at Grand Lake? Great area. As is Estes Park below it and along Trail Ridge Road above it--the vistas from Trail Ridge are superb--at a minimum! Should make the circuit from Grand Lake then South and exit back to Denver south of Evergreen along Upper Bear Creek Canyon..
Virgil ... I passed through Estes Park once, when very young, seemed like a amusement park, but I am told its been cleaned up by the NPS. Never spent time at Grand Lake, but probably should have back then...now it might be too much due to Colorado's high elevations even on valley floors. I found few mountainous areas in Colorado that weren't beautiful. I explored the length of the Collegiate Range on horse back, and a bit of the Sangre de Christo range too, when not working, and never forgot the places I saw back then. In one instance I came face to face with a cougar across a small beaver pond (I was fishing) and it solidified my interest in wilderness...we were both equally spooked and took off in opposite directions, me to my horse, hobbled a few yards below my position, who I was more concerned for than myself. I learned how to recognize everything in wilderness areas, animals and fauna, by those youthful experiences...and to pay attention because I was in their territory not mine.
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