Pikes Peak. Fire in the Heavens
Pikes Peak. Fire in the Heavens
A place everyone should go at least once in their life
I remember the first time I went when little we saw
cars with “Pikes Peak or bust” written in the back window
We did it a coupla yrs ago on the Gold Wing,kinda scary
Well it’s about time they defueled the forests out here. A few years back there were, effectively, a couple of counties incinerated in those same forests adjoining Pikes Peak. The reason it happened was that the reflexive Greens couldn’t stand to have their precious forest temples “desecrated” by removing the fuel that had built up under the forest canopy. All it took was a psycho forest rangerette that decided she was going to ignite the whole shebang.
Very scary times. My children and I sat and watched at our house for a few days, and it came very close to coming over the last ridge and down onto the Front Range proper. A fellow I flew with gave me a call after piloting his Airbus past the south side of the smoke plume. He told me they were at 41,000 ft and the plume was “way above” him. It looked very “volcanic” from where we sat (clouds & lightning too). It even has its own name, pyrocumulus. You won’t forget it if you ever see it.
Do not ever trust contemporary conservationists to manage a forest. They will incinerate the forest, and kill you in the bargain. Much of Yellowstone was lost to this foolishness. Having policies set by urban environmentalists (city folks) is the reason we have the potential of losing significant areas of our national forests.
Golly, gotta be due to global warming. /sarc