Much as I abhor New Year’s Eve crowds, I’d brave them to see fireworks shot from the summit of Pikes Peak. Who needs Denver’s 16th Street Mall when you have this in Colorado Springs?
I first heard about and wrote about this annual tradition last year and described all the preparation that goes into it. (There’s a road to the summit but the revelers hike up — two days, 12 miles. To 14,114 feet.) This is what it looked like this year, captured by Colorado photographer John Skiba.
I would definitely go to see something like that. Looks incredible.
The trick would be to get familiar with the area in advance so you’d know the best place for a great view. And I read someplace that this year fog almost obscured everything.
Beautiful!
Doesn’t even look real, does it.
That is amazing.
Amazes me that anyone would hike up that mountain in winter to do that … when there’s a perfectly good road for driving to the top.
Not much can be said, but WOW.
Ditto.
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You are right. It does hardly look real. Like glass sculptures or that old fashioned candy. What a photographer
Oh yes, colored glass. Like bright neon signage or something.