Stories from the Front Range...: Hiking through the burn zone, while another burn starts

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Hiking through the burn zone, while another burn starts

The last few years have been a matter of not if the wildfires were going to start, but when and where. Last year on Memorial Day we were hiking in Boulder when we looked north and saw a huge plume of smoke coming from north of the Flat Irons. That fire would go on to be known as the "Four mile Fire" and burned a lot of structures and a place that we had hiked in the past. In our first visit back to the park post-burn, in an eery coincidence as we were leaving we saw a big plume of smoke to the north, a fire which is still burning and called the High Park Fire.

In the Bald Mountain area, signs of both destruction and rebuilding were abundant. We did a nice little loop and then headed back home. Pictures from our day out.

Cooper and Lauren posing at one of the benches along our way