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Old 07-09-2014, 10:15 PM
 
Location: The 719
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Went hiking with friends from Rye this morning. We wound up at the Natural Slides just down from Lake San Isabel. Hope you enjoy...



































Now a few shots of yours truly going down the slide...




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Old 07-11-2014, 02:03 AM
 
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Very nice, thank you!
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Old 07-11-2014, 07:10 AM
 
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I had no intent on going down the slide. The hike was rough enough and I didn't dress for it. I think my friends would have thrown me down had I not. That water was so cold the first time down.

The flow is so much better than last year.
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Old 07-11-2014, 03:49 PM
 
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Nice photos. The beetle kill is sure evident in the third photo, though.
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Old 07-11-2014, 09:50 PM
 
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I was thinking that too. I thought I'd heard something about catepillars causing damage to aspens too.
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Old 07-12-2014, 08:15 PM
 
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^Both are causing problems in various Colorado forests. The tent caterpillar infestations are more of a temporary problem that usually (and I say "usually" under normal climatic conditions) do not kill the host trees. The beetles are a whole 'nother matter. Once an area of a forest becomes epidemically infested with beetles, it is generally a death sentence for nearly all of those trees. A hundred years plus of fire suppression, combined with years of drought in some areas has made many Colorado forests prime candidates for epidemic beetle infestations and beetle killing of entire stretches of forest. About the only things that will stop the various species of tree killing beetles are a) they run out of food (all the trees are dead), b) a fire that burns all of the dead and dying trees (including the beetles infesting them, or c) at least a couple of weeks of sustained temperatures well below zero in winter (sufficient to kill the overwintering beetle larvae in the trees.
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Old 07-25-2020, 09:59 PM
 
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Heard it's a little dry up there this year, but water still flowing a bit.
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