Monday, July 13, 2009

where Pike National Forest is.. between Colo Springs and Denver... and UP

For those wondering what's there to see...

Pike National Forest
Colorado

Perhaps as embedded in American folklore as the Brooklyn Bridge, Pike's Peak is America's easternmost 14'er (a mountain with an elevation of 14,000 feet or higher). The sentinel rises suddenly, as if to declare this is where the prairie ends, and has greeted settlers heading west much in the same way that the Statue of Liberty greeted immigrants into New York Harbor.

Stillwater elevation is 890 feet above sea level at airport.

From Phillip: Almost at camp


Phillip and family were on way to their camp last night. I think he said there are only 19 camp spots in Pike National Forest and they had one for last night and today. The campsite is on Meadow Creek. Great view.... 69 degrees and getting cooler and they were wearing jackets... sigh... 110 in Perkins yesterday and 111 day before!!