Never have so many people wished so fervently for a snowstorm. Forest fires were ravaging northern Colorado on Friday. Thousands had been evacuated from their homes in Grand Lake, Granby, Estes Park, and surrounding areas. Exhausted firefighters kept fighting, doing everything in their power to stop fires that seemingly wouldn’t be stopped. Even as smoke … Continue reading Snow! Glorious snow!
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has just announced that Estes Park residents are being asked to evacuate because of all the fires in the area. Not to mention the lousy air quality. The photo above just came in from my sister, via a friend of hers who lives in Longmont, Colo. The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office … Continue reading All of Estes Park ordered to evacuate
Late yesterday the East Troublesome fire near Granby, Colo., blew up and raced east at the rate of 100 acres per minute. That’s 100,000 acres since yesterday. Evacuation orders for the Grand Lake area were urgent — “IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA, EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY!!” — and the main highway to the south was made … Continue reading Fire closes Rocky Mountain National Park
The Cameron Peak fire, now the largest in Colorado history, continues to burn from west to east and is visible from vantage points in Estes Park. It has consumed more than 185,000 acres, or 289 square miles. Today is expected to be a difficult one for firefighters, with winds gusting from 50-70 mph. A report … Continue reading Colorado’s Cameron Peak fire now visible from Estes Park
Seeking an escape from unrelentingly awful news, I visited Erik Stensland’s “Images of RMNP.” And as usual I was met with dozens of beautiful shots of Rocky Mountain National Park, “my” park. In “Storm Night” he captured sunset’s glow on a storm over Longs Peak (the highest in the park at 14,259 feet). Like most … Continue reading It’s about the light
The national media are focused on the California wildfires, and rightly so. They far surpass Colorado’s fires in size and threat to life and property. But here in Colorado, along the Front Range, our eyes are on the Cameron Peak fire raging just north of Rocky Mountain National Park. For those following the fire and … Continue reading About Colorado’s Cameron Peak fire
