Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Boulder's 4 Mile Canyon Fire

On Memorial Day I was heading up to Eldora to hike Arapahoe Pass with my dog. Driving up US-36 towards Boulder at about 10:30am I could see a small amount of smoke coming from the mountains west of Boulder. I didn't think too much of it, but by the time I was in Boulder Canyon it was different:


I kept going up through Nederland. The wind was really nasty up there so I didn't do the hike after all. This is what the smoke from the fire looked like from Ned:


The wind drove me out so I went back to Denver through Coal Creek Canyon. When I go out to Front Range it looked terrible:

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