In October 2020 the East Troublesome fire burned through the Arapaho National Forest and eventually into Rocky Mountain National Park. Nearly 3 years later, I hiked through the burn scar to see the wildflower takeover.
Allen
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@chopaganda I was reasonably far away w/ a telephoto zoom lens, I went really wide off trail to try to stay as far away from them as I could. But I also had to get back to the trail because it turned away from the creek for a while and I wanted to get back into the woods.
Actually saw another on the way down that I couldnt photograph but it close enough to the trail for me to surprise it and for it to snort at me. Had to backtrack and hide behind some trees and wait for it to take off.
ran down to the flattop mountain summit (12,324') before it got too scary but from there to treeline was a mix of rain, graupel, and hail, with thunder crackling all around us.
masto doesnt like the size of my video so go see it on twitter, sorry.
climbed some more mountains and didnt get struck by lightning
felt close at times, though
made hallett (12,720') just before noon but had to turn back and scrap the rest of the route before things got too electric
@chopaganda so be put a hard cap on the number of ads his platform can serve daily? lmao