Waldo Canyon

A fire started up in Waldo Canyon today.   I didn’t even now about it until Candy came home from the store and said did you hear about the fire and pointed to the smoke.  I grabbed the camera and headed off in the truck to Manitou.   I needed gas so I stopped at the 7-11 located on Highway 24 and Manitou Avenue. I took these pictures around 2:15pm from the parking lot while filling the tank.  

As of tonight they are still fighting the fire.   Waldo Canyon is very well visited hiking location.  I have done it a couple of times but don’t like the number of people on the trail.  A lot of tourist visit it so if I had to take a guess, we will find out that this fire was probably started by a cigarette.

The heat that we have had the last several weeks hasn’t helped any.  I believe today they reported that we broke a record as it was 100 today.   Everything around here is drying up.