A gallery of photos from the Fern Lake Fire currently burning in Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, Colorado. Click to view as slideshow. Related articles Continue reading More photos from Colorado’s Fern Lake Fire
(Update October 12: The fire has grown to 660 acres with zero containment. Possible mountain snow forecast for tonight and tomorrow.) A fire broke out yesterday in Rocky Mountain National Park, near the trailheads for the Cub Lake and Fern Lake trails. At last report the fire had burned approximately 300 acres, with no containment … Continue reading Fire burns in eastern Rocky Mountain National Park
Check out the webcam at the Alpine Visitor Center on Trail Ridge Road. Snow in the high country! I can hear skiers all across the state cheering. Frankly, I’m not ready for snow yet. I’m still getting psyched up about fall and welcoming the end of a really miserable hot, dry summer. Just got word … Continue reading Snow in the high country
Back in July I wrote about the Alpine Visitor Center up on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. And I included a video of a drive up to it via the Old Fall River Road. I couldn’t stop thinking about it and the fact that it had been at least 20 years since … Continue reading Day trippin’
(Note: Dec. 21, 2014: For this winter, as long as it remains operable, the camera will show just three views a day — at approximately dawn, midday, and late afternoon. The view may sometimes be obscured by snow, ice, or clouds. Normal operation will resume when Trail Ridge Road reopens next spring.) There is another … Continue reading There’s a webcam at 11,796 ft on Colorado’s Trail Ridge Road
If you arrived here in response to a notice that I’d posted something new, I apologize. I tried reblogging one of my old posts, just to see how it worked, and decided it was too big a mess to leave in place (confirming my conviction that Reblog is a bad tool and I don’t want … Continue reading Rain in the Rockies — I wish
