Mile Hi Cobra Club - Westcliffe June 6th, 2021

[Papa]

We had a few brave souls meet up for a drive today in spite of the weather forecast - possible afternoon thunderstorms. Here are a few pictures of this beautiful drive...

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Lunch was at the Silver West Feedstore. Fantastic food!

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The rain finally came on the way back:

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[Bob Cowan]

Sorry We missed it. Well, not the rain part. But the rest of it looked good.

[Papa]

Sorry We missed it. Well, not the rain part. But the rest of it looked good.

Bob,

It was a fun day with plenty of twisty canyons and some stunning views. The rain was miserable -- ain't gonna lie, but we made it through and I have that "when, not if" item checked off my list now.

Dave

[GoDadGo]

How Do You Breath At Such A Great Altitude Is Beyond Me!

Great Pics & Sorry About Your Wiper!

[Papa]

How Do You Breath At Such A Great Altitude Is Beyond Me!

Great Pics & Sorry About Your Wiper!

Big lungs, Steve. It's a real thing ...

"When living at high altitude for a certain period of time, the human body acclimatizes by increasing pulmonary perfusion and lung capacity, increasing the oxygen-binding capacity of blood and peripheral tissues, and increasing the amount of red blood cells in order to endure the low atmospheric pressure and low partial pressure of oxygen."

Cite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175264/

[Fman]

Looks like a beautiful drive you guys sure have some awesome country up at the mile high club... I dread the day I get caught in the rain... no wipers on my ride:D

Funny thing is we were delayed 4 hours on our flight yesterday afternoon out of Denver because of T-storms... must have been the same storm you were driving in!

[Papa]

Here is a short (low quality) video my wife took on her cell phone of a nice little twisty section:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCNjCLrexA8

Edit: Ran it through some stabilization processing. It's still shaky, but a bit better.