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posted 04-08-2002 02:49 AM         

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What a great picture of Dave Ridge and his car in the "My Prowler and Me" tribute. I don't know how I missed that before tonight. Outstanding! I would say that is the best photo submitted for the CD.

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posted 04-08-2002 08:52 AM         

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CJ - you are definitly correct about photo opps in Colorado. I am just glad we now have a digital camera because I am afraid the cost of film and developing would break me in June!! I hope that the road up Mt. Evans is not snow covered and closed then.

Marty

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posted 04-08-2002 04:33 PM         

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CJ, that picture is so perfect it looks fake. I would think the snow will be gone by June 7th.

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posted 04-08-2002 06:42 PM         

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Ed
Are you kidding? That picture was taken in July last year. The Mountains have snow on 'em year round. Better bring your longjohns.

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posted 04-08-2002 06:50 PM         

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Ed - Rebecca and I (foolishly) hiked up the Ten Mile Range mountains across from Copper Mountain with plans to go down the other side and have brunch in Breckinridge, then take the free county shuttle back to Copper Mountain. Once we reached the Summit at 12635 feet and started back down there was so much snow we had to turn back - this was in AUGUST. Mt. Evans, Pikes Peak and other mountains are over 14,000 ft. high. The Smokeys are just hills in comparison!!

Like CJ said, snow or no snow, there will be lots of great cruises!!

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posted 04-08-2002 07:32 PM         

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Ed......not fake. That was taken after we came down off Trail Ridge Road last year before Crazy Horse.

First time I was ever in Colorado was when my parents moved there after my father retired in 1968. Bob and I had only been married 7 months. We helped them move by driving a U-Haul with their belongings and we towed my 66 Malibu behind so we had a way back home. I won't tell you about the part where my Dad was trying to direct Bob to a gas pump at a Nickerson Farms that had a roof overhang and Bob hit it and literally raised the roof, not to mention everyone who came running out of the restaurant there. Anyway, on the 4th of July, we were up in the mountains and it started to snow..hard! I made Bob get out and take pictures 'cause I figured no one would believe it!! Silly me.......a very common occurrence I found out. After living there for 14 years, we called people who were doing what I was doing..Tourists!!! LOL!

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posted 04-08-2002 09:30 PM         

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CJ, I knew it wasn't fake, but it looks so perfect it is hard to believe it is real.
There were people snowboarding last year while we were in Colo, just after Deadwood, but I meant the snow would be off the roads and passable. I realize the snow is there year round on the higher elevations, especially on the north sides. I should have been more specific. I know it is cold even in August at high elevation. I have been on Pike's Peak a few times. I have never been on Mt. Evans.

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posted 04-11-2002 08:57 PM         

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Thanks, Ed, for the compliment! Nancy took that picture of the Prowler and me at Ponce de Leon Park here in Punta Gorda at sunset.

Would have replied sooner, but Tom & Susie Mills have been visiting us this week and we have been busy talking Prowler stuff and doing some sightseeing.

Dave

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posted 04-11-2002 10:12 PM         

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Dave, I will repeat, that is one fantastic shot.

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posted 04-12-2002 12:11 AM         

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Ed - that July 2001 pic of CJ's cat is real, I was parked about 50 feet behind her. Plenty of snow to see up there, but we hopefully we will not be driving through any of it. I have several pics from that spot with Pauley's, Alex's, another guy from Denver (?), CJ's, and the Alley Cat in prime cruising country.

PaulR - see what you missed last year. You'll make it this time.

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