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09-02-2008, 03:12 PM
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Rye & Colorado City -- PHOTO TOUR
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09-02-2008, 09:52 PM
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Isn't Colorado City about the northernmost place in Colorado where you can see pinion pines?
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09-02-2008, 09:57 PM
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Especially just north of there and up to Cedarwood exit!
I drive along there every day and I've been around the area since 77' on and off. It just seems so normal to me. I wish I had money to get some property from those Hatchet Ranch subdivisions.
Thanks, and thanks for checkin the photos out.
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09-02-2008, 10:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vegaspilgrim
Isn't Colorado City about the northernmost place in Colorado where you can see pinion pines?
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On the eastern slope, maybe--though there are some isolated pockets north of there. In western Colorado, piñons go clear to the Wyoming border--actually into southwestern Wyoming.
Don't get me started on how delicious piñon nuts are--I love 'em. But there isn't any more miserable job than trying to harvest the darned things. I knew some guys that used a pretty straightforward procedure--lay a sheet on the ground around the piñon tree, and then back into the trunk of the tree a few times with a pickup--just hard enough to knock all the cones loose, not hard enough to damage the tree. Got plenty of pitch on the truck, though.
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09-02-2008, 11:26 PM
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They ought to have a Pinion flavored coffee. 
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