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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 04:53 pm:

Visiting family in Gunbarrel, CO, this week. Visited Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday and found this 1916 Touring Car also out for the ride. Beautiful day'

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The recent forest fire on the park has rekindled and some vistas are smoky.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Thursday, November 08, 2012 - 04:56 pm:

Whoops! Wrong slash.

model t

Tom


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Huson, Berthoud, Co. on Friday, November 09, 2012 - 11:36 pm:

Tom:

That was my T. Did you introduce yourself?
I was up in the park again yesterday. I try to drive somewhere in the mountains at least every other week end. Boy was that Fern Lake Fire kicking up a lot of smoke yesterday. You could smell it clear down in Estes. There have been two recent light snow falls in the mountains but the fire is still going in all the beetle kill. Someone told me at coffee today that you could even see the plume from Berthoud. I wish I had taken a picture.

sheep meadow


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - 10:26 pm:

Dave,

i talked to a man and asked him if he was Dave Huson since I knew you lived in the area. He said he was not, but knew who you were. Unfortunately, I couldn't remain longer to find out whose car it was. Maybe on my next visit to Boulder.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Huson, Berthoud, Co. on Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 11:09 pm:

Thomas Mullin:

Sorry I missed you, I believe that you took the picture at Many Parks Curve. Its slightly over 10,000 feet. Its too bad you could not go on to Rainbow Curve at 10,960 or even the top at 12,183.
You were just around the bend where the two roads meet.

Rainbow Curve


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Thomas Mullin on Friday, November 16, 2012 - 05:59 pm:

Dave,

That's right - Many Parks Curve. That was as far as was open. Beyond that was closed for the season.

I noticed you had a Ruckstel and small drum brakes. No need for Rocky Mountain Brakes?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Noel D. Chicoine, MD, Pierre, SD on Friday, November 16, 2012 - 06:42 pm:

Dave, I thought that once the needles were off the dead trees, they weren't as prone to fire. We are getting more and more beetle kill trees in the Black Hills. I don't think there is any way to stop them as spraying them all is way to costly and trying to keep ahead of the infestation by cutting down the ones that look like they have been hit before the new vermin hatch looks like a stop gap answer at best.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Huson, Berthoud, Co. on Friday, November 16, 2012 - 09:36 pm:

Thomas Mullin:

You are right, I should have rockies on the 16. I just have not got to it yet but will. I have them on two of my other cars. I am a believer in Rockies. About 25 or 30 years ago I was coming out of Central City, Colorado on a pretty steep road. I sheared the the woodruff key in my pinion gear and had neutral right away. I told the wife to hold on. I had not done a good job on adjusting the emergency brakes so we were on the way down hill. I finally got the T stopped in a parking lot down in the town of Black Hawk.

Noel Chicoine:

The needles stay on the trees for at least one year after they die. I hate to hear that the Black Hills has the beetle problem. I always thought that was a neat area.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Huson, Berthoud, Co. on Sunday, December 02, 2012 - 03:04 am:

Thoma Mullin:

The same Fern Lake Fire that was burning back on November 8th when you were there is still going even worse now. I imagine that since you went up to Many parks curve that you drove up 36 through Moraine Park. That was all evacuated at 2 am.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dave Huson, Berthoud, Co. on Sunday, December 02, 2012 - 03:12 am:

Thomas Mullin:

Moraine Park is just behind the back of the Touring. You can not see any of the cabins in the picture just the meadows. You probably will not remember the place.

Moraine Park


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