Pine Ridge Fire | Life on a Colorado Farm

We got to Salida to go on our pre-arranged trip on the Captain Zipline tours, but while we were eating it started to rain! RAIN! We have not seen rain in our part of Colorado for months and months and not even a wet snow last winter.

So having this really neat rain was well WONDERFUL! The zip-line tour had to be canceled until the next morning at 9:30, but who cared! Salida got about 60 minutes of really nice rain. They told us this was the first good rain they have had in a very long time.

The next morning we were at the loading dock paid and ready to go…it’s a fifteen minute drive to the mountains and canyons where the zip-lines were located.

I thought I would NOT be able to do this…..attach myself to wire and fling myself off a canyon wall to zip over the wire to the next side of the canyon….but I did it!!!!

What a hoot!

We rode all seven (counting the bunny training line)!

The group we were with was lots of fun and our guides were very good. The whole thing was hugely fun.

I recommend it for everyone…and if you can’t stand heights…well, just keep your eyes shut!

I did for the first two…the last five were incredible!

When we got back into Salida it rained again…for 15 minutes. How delicious it felt!

We called Misty and asked if home got any rain.

No, no rain.

Not even a dark cloud.

While we were in Salida, a fire started close to home. That is the Pine Ridge fire at Debeque, Colorado. (Lightening caused)

Debeque is between Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs, Colorado, if you want to check it out on the map.

Many of you have asked how close that is to us…it’s about an hour and 15 minutes away…around 60 miles. Grand Junction is experiencing lots of smoke from the fire, but we are up the way…. East from Grand Junction, so we only see the smoke as it bellows over the mountains and canyons west of us.

Tomorrow I will tell you about Cottonwood Springs.

Happy Monday Everyone!

Linda

We took off Wednesday and headed over to Salida and Buena Vista, Colorado. We were in-between the next set of work on the farm. The only thing having to be done was the irrigation, which Misty did for us — 6 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, 10 at night. Bladen helped.

A little vacation was what we needed!

Three days and two nights.

We only had one spot of road construction going over Serro Summit toward Salida. We only saw one wreck (which was great –and it looked like no one was hurt). Traffic was light.

Everywhere is dry, dry, dry.

Coming back we headed on out of Buena Vista, Colorado, over Cottowood Pass toward the headwaters of our irrigation system…..Taylor Lake.

Wouldn’t you know it?! There was my Sunday Stills Photo Op—-

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A twenty minute wait while they blasted through rock while widening the road.

Everything was extremely dry.

While we were there we experienced two rain storms. One lasted an hour and the other 15 minutes. We were delighted!

Also, while we were there we met many people from Colorado Springs who had been evacuated from the Waldo Canyon Fire and others who had come over from Fort Collins to get away from the smoke.

Also, while we were there we found out that the Pine Ridge Fire had started in our neck of the woods. The smoke is terrible in the Debeque Canyon and in Grand Junction. We can see the huge dark plums rising over the mountains.

So Sad! So very sad.

Hopefully the rains will start soon. Those two showers we experienced were just plain delightful!

Anyway, for great photos of roads head on over here and check out the comment section, click on everyone’s name and see some great roads from here, there, and around the world!

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Have a great Sunday everyone!