Autumn Camping along the Cache La Poudre

GoinThisAway wrote:
When one hears about a wildfire burning through an area they tend to think that everything there is toast. As you show they actually often leave patches untouched. Your spot looked particularly inviting with its cool stream set under the burned hillside.

One other thing you see is that fires more around in a vertical sense as well. My uncle lost his home of 37 years (and everything else on the proeprty) in the Black Forest fire back in June. I have been working reclaiming his property and removing all the debris, foundations etc. and have been going down every few weekends for the last month and a half. It is amazing to see how some sections were a ground fire and it raced along burning the grasses and lowest limbs, but not touching the middle or tops of the trees. In other places, the crowns burned but not the bottoms of the trees. Of course there are also both completely black-as-night sections where every living thing was burned and completely untouched sections. I find it fascinating every time I drive down to his property at that variance, especially in the vertical sense. I would have no problem putting a house right there in the middle of the Black Forest and watching it gradually recover. His views of the mountains improved and the grasses are amazing. But he's in his mid-70's and doesn't want to rebuild because he doesn't think he'll be around long enough for the forest to come back. But that concrete pad from the garage will likely make a great camping site for his nephew ;)