Was hiking out on a trail by Castle Rock called the Legacy Trail, when I stumbled upon this old flipped over truck. Crazy thing is that directly to the left of the image is a massive cliff, and to the right is thick woodlands. Only way it could have gotten here is by driving directly off a cliff.
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That is great news for residents.
AirBnB (and vrbo), when used at a scale like they are here, create crazy price pressure on both renters and home buyers, as well as neighborhoods. In a city of only 40,000 households, AirBnB lists between hundreds and a thousand available properties in Boulder. That's a huge chunk of the housing market. ( try: https://www.airbnb.com/s/boulder-colorado?checkin=05%2F16%2F2015&checkout=05%2F22%2F2015&source=bb )
It was different years back when AirBNB was literally just folks sharing their house when they were away on vacation. Now there are bulk firms turning homes into year-round unregulated Hotels on otherwise residential blocks. It absolutely sucks to live near them.
That'd be Camp Trinidad, a World War II Prisoner of War Camp, where the US detained German soldiers during the war.
A Wikipedia list of POW camps lists it as well.
>So it drives the prices down or up?
It creates artificial scarcity and drives rental prices up. (As well as home prices up.) Hundreds of residential properties that would normally be in the rental market (or home sale market) are being used as unlicensed hotels. In a city of only 40,000 households, this is actually a problem.
EDIT: Actually, AirBnB lists over 1,000 available rental properties in Boulder for a prime week in May. https://www.airbnb.com/s/boulder-colorado?checkin=05%2F16%2F2015&checkout=05%2F22%2F2015&source=bb
697 of them are "entire place / whole house" rentals.
>Why does it suck to live near them?
Picture living in an otherwise quiet residential neighborhood. You're putting your baby down to sleep after a long day. But instead of neighbors, this weekend you get a group of drunk Australians on a holiday. People who know that there are no long-term consequences to their actions or conduct. There's no manager on site to watch for noise problems. They'll never pay a noise violation fine.
Now imagine this group changes every few days. Perpetually Year round.
There are a lot of reasons hotels are zoned separately from residential neighborhoods.
I have been a Private Internet Access customer for years - great service. Less than $4/month for 5 devices, no bandwidth limits, hardly any slowdown. Great practices.
This chart should help you make your own choice about a service that is becoming more and more necessary:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/opinion/is-donald-trumps-cabinet-anti-woman.html
He says a lot of things so I'm not even going to go there, but his cabinet picks leave women with plenty to worry about.
I did a quick search and found this article that supports what you wrote. Interesting how influential a good video can be even if it isn't necessarily true. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debunk-myth-that-yellowstone-wolves-changed-entire-ecosystem-flow-of-rivers/349988/amp
Per Weather.com, using data from NOAA, he is correct: Weld County is #1. And Adams County is #3.
But, something to consider: both of those counties are relatively large. Weld County especially, it's like most of the NE chunk of the state.
>Once it started hailing on us we decided to give up and head back.
Yup that's about that time. Check out this book, its basically the RMNP bible: https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-National-Park-Complete/dp/1565795504/ref=zg_bs_17296_11?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TGJYQHRB7VVK19ER9S60
Detailed terrain maps and route descriptions to get to every named feature in the park (and many landmarks that are not officially named.
That's a really shitty article. Have some nuanced discussion instead of that flaming linkdump:
There's an atlantic article linked in there for you, as well as some good analysis.
And here's a less inflammatory and hyperbolic NYT article if you don't actually believe they're "fake news". Not sure if it was just CNN that republicans are slapping that on or anything.
I've noticed a lot of publicity for Private Internet Access on Reddit lately... the /r/HailCorporate in me makes me think something is up. However, I use IVPN just fine and pay with bitcoins, though it's a little pricey compared to others..
Edit: Did I rub someone the wrong way?
There is also this thing called the Supreme Court which is the final judge in all cases involving the Constitution. In 2015 they ruled in favor of same-sex marriage.
"In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage." ( https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage.html )
>Yeah but of those results a lot are from people living in a home and renting out a room
If you restrict the search to "Entire Place / whole house rentals" there are 697 Boulder properties listed.
That's nearly one out of every 50 households in the city.
> Do you have a source for that claim?
AirBnB.com and VRBO.com
Depending on the week of the year you're looking at they list between a few hundred and 1000+ Boulder properties available.
( EG: May week with 1000+ AirBnB properties currently available in Boulder:
697 of these are "whole house/entire place" listings.
)
Look at all those federal restrictions hindering the production of a drugless plant that could be providing food, fiber, fuel and land conservation without any risks.
There is zero justification for hemp prohibition.
Read that again The Drug Enforcement Agency has been mostly fighting a drugless industrial crop that grows in the wild since it was used to help win World War II.
What kind of government agency would fight against something that helped Americans win a war? What government would they be working for? A friendly allied government or an enemy state?
Recall that they have used propaganda to deceive the public about this plant for decades. Would loyal citizens do that or would traitors?
That video has been debunked.
>Colorado State University's Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory professor Tom Hobbs said there is no dispute among scientists that removing the wolf from Yellowstone had vast ecological impacts on the park, but there is a "disagreement on what happens when you put it back." ... > His research indicates that wolves have had very little impact on willow growth since their 1995 reintroduction.
Consider dipping south to the Westcliffe area for some 14ers (Sangre de Cristos) and amazing scenery. The trail into South Colony is beautiful, or if you want to stay a bit more mellow, trek around the area on the Rainbow trail and perhaps hike upward to an alpine lake (lots of trails).
Edit: Map link didn't update properly.
Mosca Pass, 234 miles/4.25 hours from Denver
Pettingell Peak, ~58 miles/1.5 hours from Denver
Westcliffe, ~145 miles/3 hours from Denver (although I don't know where to go once you're there)
Crestone, ~194 miles/4 hours from Denver (although, again, I don't know where to go from there)
You might want to use Snoonet as it is more geared toward hosting reddit related IRC channels. Freenode is more for open source software projects: https://freenode.net/philosophy.shtml
It's not a straw man. It's the (heavy) majority view among people who oppose abortions. Check the link below for relevant surveys. I'd specifically direct you to the quote: "When asked if they agree or disagree that 'abortion is murder,' a majority of the public, by a 57-36 percent margin, says that it is."
If you are bringing a more reasoned and less hyperbolic tone to the debate, that's fantastic. I wholeheartedly encourage it. But I'm not the one bringing the inflammatory language to the debate. The pro-life movement did that-and no, not just "the worst examples" of the movement. The majority.
"There are women on the page who have said that the march is not inclusive enough, and that they don’t want an event organized by white women."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/womens-march-on-washington.html?_r=0
Annual and lifetime limits were quite commonplace before the Affordable Care Act, but now they're prohibited.
Certain coverage may be limited to a number of visits, but only until the deductible or out of pocket limits are satisfied. The ACA requires that the out of pocket limit for an individual must not be more than $6500. This is capped significantly lower than many plans pre-ACA.
Southwest Colorado is definitely the place to go. https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Denver,+CO&daddr=N+Mt+Elbert+Trail,+Twin+Lakes,+Colorado+81251+to:39.40574,-108.10594+to:CO-145+S+to:38.53107,-106.82428+to:Denver,+CO&hl=en&sll=39.023451,-105.073242&sspn=3.499225,8.453979&ge...
I really like the idea behind these types of news summaries (especially these kind of "This Week in Science" posts)
I'm not technically inclined enough to pull this off, but I think it would be interesting to present this type of info with an option for viewpoint filters. Like a drop-down box for: republican bias, no bias, democrat bias, etc. Then people have an option to see what they want to see as well as see it how others want to see it. Maybe then common ground might be found or better supported arguments could be formed in having discussions with one another?
I took my time and did it in 6 hours... I probably sat around for ~2 hours just taking pictures and enjoying the scenery. Here's a link of the route and other details. Mills Lake is nearby and really awesome too... and Black Lake is a little further but also really nice.
Don't mind at all. Here's my GPS. We split it up over a couple days. Here are a few pic's along the way. Super nice up there. Next time I'll have to get up on top of Mt Alice or Chief's Head
Did you mix up the name? This is what Crater Lake looks like.
By the way, this lake looks even cooler (and alpine), but I'm curious if you misidentified it.
Cliff jumping and hiking at Guffey Cove/Paradise Cove: http://www.everytrail.com/guide/paradise-cove-swimming-hole
It's gotten extremely well-known over the past few years so the swim hole is busy in the good weather. The hike is beautiful though and not many people do it, and if you follow the river you'll end up on a farm that breeds zebras.
Also, another well-known (and way too busy) spot that's beautiful and a great workout due to the elevation: Hanging Lake. If you go to Hanging Lake, make sure to go for a weekend and explore some lesser known hikes around Glenwood Springs. It's a beautiful area.
Those are good points, but I think it's impossible for the EC to be abolished if we go the constitutional amendment route. Only 13 out of 99 state legislatures are needed to block what the other 86 state legislatures want.
Personally, I think the only way to do it is to have a full-blown constitutional convention. I think you would like the book "Our Undemocratic Constitution" by Sanford Levinson. He discusses how the US Constitution creates institutions that are inherently in opposition to our democratic ideals and have only morphed to be more undemocratic over time. He has a whole chapter on how the role of the presidency has expanded far over what was ever intended to be protected by "checks & balances". It seems like right up your alley.
Read the book Beast In The Garden, about when mountain lions followed deer down into Boulder. The hippies loved it, at least until the deer, then pets, then people, started disappearing:
I literally went from amazon to here and thought saw the same photo...
Damn phones tracking me hah
If you want nuance then Land on Fire is your book. Global warming is most definitely part of the problem. You can find references and data in the book. The current fire suppression tactics began in 1910 with the Big Burn where millions of acres burned and many fire fighters died. That event set the origins of how the US Forest Service deals with fire.
"Land on Fire explores the fascinating science behind this phenomenon and the ongoing research to find a solution. This gripping narrative details how years of fire suppression and chronic drought have combined to make the situation so dire"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_1910
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Fire-Reality-Wildfire-West/dp/1604697008
edit: added a wiki link to The Big Burn
Edit: This is actually a really cool app, even just to see what kind of wildlife is being recorded and photographed. Butterflies on MLK Jr. BLVD, Mule Deer near Buckley AFB and wild mushrooms in Wash Park.
They fold flat, when unfolded they fit nicely in your cart, they stack, and they hold more than plastic bags so less trips in from your car. And they have handles!
And that turned out to be bullshit. https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/scientists-debunk-myth-that-yellowstone-wolves-changed-entire-ecosystem-flow-of-rivers/349988
They are already there. Which is why I think some people think it's a waste of taxpayer money to do something that is already happening naturally, which I can sort of agree with.
There's also been a lot of evidence coming out that all of the natural ecosystem improvement attributed to wolves is inaccurate.
This has been debunked so many times... Seems like you and Lauren share a lack of understanding the news before making comments.
I just found this map and it seems to pretty well curate this area in particular but seems to include a lot of Denver and Colorado as a whole.
OP is correct, there are decent numbers of trails in Thornton and all of the metro area for that matter. I have ridden from my house in Thornton to bar lake johnstown, lafayette and further west, standley lake, nearly to Golden, chatfield state park, downtown, cherry creek state park, and to eastern Aurora. Many of the trails connect together and you can string a ride together from nearly anywhere.
One of my favorite rides on an off road trail is signal ditch west to the golf course in Westminster. There are some great areas on that ride and the underpass at I-25 is pretty sweet.
I don't really like these types of kits, because while they are all squared away with one thing to grab, the first time you open it then you basically have a mess of shit coming out that is all in way over-packaged literal garbage. I went for a walk on the loop at Batasso and had two different people stop me in one day for a med kit for scrapes and falls, so either I refuse them or now this thing is blown up.
I'd much prefer this style (though perhaps not this specific) of kit with a resealable outer bag and then mostly just loose stuff inside.
No not me but I have seen I think a huge um, well you just don't want to know what they were all doing, it was horrible. There were several king snakes all together. They're not venomous but I almost stepped on them. I don't want to think about it anymore.
Well, he claimed to be κυριος, σοτερ, and Υιός του θεού (Lord, Savior, Son of God).
Those are all titles that belonged to Caesar. It’s a bit like calling yourself the Commander in Chief, his audience and followers would’ve caught onto the political significance.
Aaaaaaaand this is why the Romans cut Christian tongues out. It wasn’t because they were practicing another religion (which was allowed). It was because their religion was seditious against the emperor.
Even the word gospel has political connotations. A gospel was proclaimed when Caesar gave birth to an heir, or conquered his enemies in battle. It’s a bit like a State of the Union address in our times.
For more reading on the subject, check out Subversive Meals
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I was a mine mechanic on the 600 level underground. I worked on machines known as slushers, which moved ore into train cars. We installed and repaired the slushers as needed. We operated with our own locomotives and rail cars.
Molybdenum is a refractory metal used in steel alloys. It's also used as a lubricant, among other things. It is dense, a black to blue-black color, runs in veins. It's usually found as a sulfide. The ore body ran/runs from high up on the side of Bartlett Mountain to deep underground. Core drilling done when I worked there showed that the farther they drilled down the bigger the ore body was. At the time Climax was one of only a few sources of molybdenum in the free world; that has since changed.
Climax was once said to be the largest underground mine in North America; it was huge, a city underground. I've heard that Climax was the second largest user of electricity in Colorado after Denver. Development of an open pit over the underground began back in the early '60s, IIRC. At some point after I left in the early '80s the underground was shut down and allowed to flood out. I believe all mining operations are now open pit only.
The mine got rolling during World War I--molybdenum was found to be an excellent alloy for steel cannon barrels. Climax has since followed booms and busts through the years, as mining does. It's a huge subject, too much to do justice here. Stephen Voynick wrote a great history of the place, which is available on Amazon:
Ugh, so jealous. Did some camping in this area on a friend's property and fell in love with Westcliffe.
Here's a link to the trail.
I was planning on doing this trail with some friends in mid to late June. Weminuche is the largest wilderness in Colorado and also some of the darkest skies in Colorado, and this is smack dab in the middle. Since we'll be going during a new moon, I'm very excited to see an insane number of stars
You can drive to the Glacier Goege or Bear Lake parking lots but have to hike from there, it's about 5.5 miles out and back with around 1,000 feet elevation gain. Not terribly difficult, you don't need snowshoes to get to The Loch or Mill Lake but with the amount of snow and ice on the trails you will definitely want some Yaktrax to slip over your boots for traction. You might be able to rent some at one of the shops in Estes Park, otherwise they're like $30 at REI
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/colorado/the-loch-lake-trail-via-glacier-gorge-trail
This picture is actually from last July, but it iust popped back up on my timeline and I wanted to share. We did not summit, we took the trail to Brown's Creek Waterfall.
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/colorado/browns-creek-waterfall-trail?p=23124905
You are right on the money with this. Arapahoe High School has had 9 suicides since 2013, which is the year an innocent girl was shot in the face in the library by another student, who the school had been warned about 19 times, and some kids from that school shot another kid this year over $25 for a vape cartridge. A parent on Nextdoor reported her kids being bullied on the bus to that school and nothing was done until his glasses and shoulder were broken, then other parents chimed in about how their kids complained about what ruthless animals the kids are, and that was all just last year.
Specifically this Bear Creek Trail as there seems to be a few.
This weekend I was so bummed out by the shitty weather, but was already in Colorado Springs and saw a nice window for a day-hike this morning. Visibility was limited to 20m or so by a heavy mist which made the whole thing feel like a Washingtonian evergreen rain forest. My personal mission to find some sort of edible fungus failed, but I managed to get a few good phone pictures of wildflowers so it proved to be a good day.
The hike is fantastic if you want a moderate workout without killing your joints. Grey Rock in Poudre Canyon is still my favourite so far, but Bear Creek is really gorgeous.
Yeah, I intentionally didn't name the location. I'm a big fan of "Tag Responsibly". Unfortunately, on Reddit if a post gets popular enough someone will always chime in with the location.
> Where are these $100 airplane tickets?!
https://www.kayak.com/explore/DEN?budget=100
> 747s can carry [...]
747s aren't used in every flight, especially domestically. Frontier for example uses the Airbus A321 a lot, which seats ~200. Many airlines still use the 737-400 which seats 188. Smaller routes like DEN to BZN use things like the A319, which seats 160.
Climax was the first place in Colorado with cable TV. They put an antenna atop the mountain in line of sight with Lookout Mountain west of Denver, where the TV antennas were, then ran a cable down to the town.
There's a great book about Climax--Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine, by Stephen Voynick:
https://www.amazon.com/Climax-History-Colorados-Molybdenum-Mine-Mountain/dp/0878423540
I hope you have a wonderful marriage.
Reading this book might help in the long run, I wish I'd read it sooner.
Congrats! :-)
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>Every instance of the 1918 Flu originally came from Kansas.
Newer scholarship is calling this into question, with one historian more recently providing strong evidence that it probably started in China. The popular Haskell, Kansas origination theory is based on research that was later popularized in the early 2000s, most notably for American audiences in a 2004 popular history book by John Barry (still a great read today, I might add).
I can't believe no one has suggested WeatherNation, as they're based in Englewood. They also have a premium smartphone app without shitty advertising:
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Look at you with your facts and history!
The purpose of these statements is the inflammatory nature.
But you should check out this book
>A white sheet enveloped Denver in the mid-1920s. The mayor, governor, and majorities of city council and the Colorado House of Representatives were members of the Ku Klux Klan. At least one-quarter of the population allied itself with the masked marauders. Backers projected themselves as "100-percent Christian Americans"; who were practicing patriotism by forcing everybody else to accept their normas. The Colorado Klan of the 1920s projected itself as standing in the American reform tradition. It embraced the distribution of information about birth control and sought to make public schools into compulsory institutions. Numerous previous supporters of the Progressive movement allied themselves with it. In the shadow of the Klan not only examines the Klan in Denver, but traces its impact on all of Colorado. Despite being anti-Semitic, the Klan had a Jewish layers, Ben Laska. The anti-Catholic KKK teamed up with the Catholic hierarchy and corporate Denver to oust internationally acclaimed Juvenile Court Judge Ben Lindsey. By emphasizing such ironies, the book serves as a reminder of what happened in the 1920s so citizens will be able to avoid comparable developments in the future.
Rick Bass wrote a book 20 years or so ago, called The Lost Grizzlies. It was about him and others doing a search in the Weminuche for 'lost' grizzlies. He was kinda dithering and evasive about what he found, though hinting that they found sign of them. It was a rather annoying book, as I recall.
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Grizzlies-Survivors-Wilderness-Colorado/dp/0395857007
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Pick up these or something similar. The one time that I got stuck last winter, they worked like a charm.
If you are interested in a somewhat biased read, check out The Blueprint: How The Democrats Won Colorado sometime. It's a pretty interesting read if you're at all invested in politics.