Posted on 08/09/2021 4:20:09 PM PDT by george76
I used to hike up to Hanging Lake, but now it is very overcrowded.
Need a reservation ticket when it is re-opened.. Drone pictures show Hanging Lake silted up / dirty.
“silted up / dirty.”
Damn. That was some of the clearest water I have seen.
Drove that route a few years ago. It was beautiful and the engineering impressive. In August there was no snow to worry about. The stretch where the freeway is essentially a double deck is just cool, whatever else they think is wrong with it, it’s cool.
Countries like Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy will build high speed roads, rail, bridges,roads and tunnels just about anywhere. I have even seen large US construction companies over there in the middle of significant projects.
If California and other states loke Colorado and Washington were more like Germmany France, Italy, or Switzerland, there would be bridges and tunnels, and drop dead stunning gorgeous views throughout the Sierra, Cascades, and Rockies which would absolutely blow peoples minds.
Most Americans will never know...
It’s been a while, but I have had conversations with people from Germany and Italy, where they literally laughed at America for going along with leftist environmentalists, and our leftist bureaucratic efforts to stop progress and development.
I live 1700 miles east of Denver, at the other end of I-70. There’s a sign just after you get onto I-170 westbound that says Denver 1700, Cove Fort 2200. Whenever we get onto I-70 my wife and I feel this great excitement that “The West” is in front of us. Just the other day we decided that when I reire in about 2 years we’ll get on I-70 and take it all the way to Cove Fort. And then, who knows? When we get to this stretch, I’ll remember to be careful, even as I marvel at the nature and the engineering, and mourn the loss of that area’s pristine state.
Over the last 50 years, American infrastructure has deteriorated from the envy of the world to near Third World status.
In the ‘70 s, I drove down the road through the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Coming from mild Connecticut, I was half glamoured in awe, and half ‘making laundry.
I loved driving that beautiful and scenic stretch of road.
I can't ever recall seeing such a non-qualifiction boasted about in an article like this before. He could be three days out of high school and merely accepted to an unaccredited correspondence school to claim this level of authority.
The old wagon road went up Clear Creek Canyon. They wisely decided not to engineer an expensive and unsafe 4-lane (which is now a 6-lane) highway up the same route, but to instead go up and over the nearby hills.
The author clearly hasn't driven more than 25 miles outside of Denver on I-70 past Idaho Springs where the highway follows every twist and bend of Clear Creek. The placement of any road is always based primarily on geography so qualitative comparisons like the author makes here are completely invalid. This neophyte author should change his major to journalism where he could spout off his unqualified opinions without any evidence or logic and have a chance of getting a pay check.
Agree!
Whatever the immorality and the left contaminates will spiral into slavery and oblivion.
The author loses a lot of credibility. The reason for the devastating mudslides this year is the fire that burned through the canyon last year. Wildfires leave denuded areas very prone to mudslides and flooding. they are having similar issues in other burn scars all over colorado this summer
Same thing happen(s) in Big Sur and other places around the country. To hard for people to connect it logically. /s
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/04/23/highway-1-near-big-sur-to-reopen-friday-after-landslide/
“Mountain Mike” is a trucker from Colorado that posts videos. It’s almost like going on a road trip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfV8wLTp6S8
Well, they didn’t “destroy the canyon.” It is a beautiful engineering marvel.
Driving on an icy, snow-covered, 2-lane highway kills more people. Vehicles stuck in traffic for hours or inching along on a 2-lane highway produces more pollution.
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