Spring Snowshoe Trip to Pikes Peak
We pay our $10 each and 30 minutes after leaving the driveway we're up the Pikes Peak Highway and along the side of the old ski area, ready to strap on the snowshoes
Young firs are starting to fill in the ski trails. The electric wires connect to Glen Cove. Shirley breaks trail.
The snow is deep and wet with a thin crust over a lot of granular ice crystals which makes for some slow going.
After a turn to the east, Glen Cove is behind us with Little Italy full of snow--but, no skiers.
To the north, the lowlands are snow free.
We continue to the top of the ski area, into the Bristlecone forest and my favorite individual. It has just a couple of live branches on the right side.
Pikes Peak is shrouded...
but overhead, patches of blue.
On our way down we take a few minutes to look at apparent NFS born again fire mitigation efforts along the highway. Is this a fire break?
Some sort of micro clear cuts with piles of skinny logs and slash. Hard to guess what's going on other than a hell of a job of "management"
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