Aug 072021
When I lived in Utah, maybe a quarter of the time when I drove back from visiting friends and family in the midwest I’d go through Denver and continue on I-70 through Colorado, passing through Glenwood Canyon. It’s a beautiful drive, highly recommended… except… maybe hold off for a bit. Had a bit of a mudslide a week or so back; I-70 looks like it might be out of action for a month or more. This drone footage shows the extend of the mudslide, and how far back and *up* it started. noted the rather startling number of dead trees, which might have contributed. Fire? Drought? Plague? Pestilent bug invasion?
Argh.
A documentary on the canyon and the highway through it, dating from 2015. Note that it looked a *lot* greener just a few years ago: