Our brief annual Will Smith Memorial Kayak Coarse up date, Memorial Day week end is past and the run off is peaking. I am still looking for our elusive kayaker on Will Smiths “world famous” kayak course, to no avail.
A statistic you many enjoy; there were more tourist pedestrians serious injured by local motorists while legally walking in cross walks in Estes Park than there where people injured by elk in Estes Park - in total - ever.
Just a public service reminder, you all choose to move to our Colorado Mountains, on the boarder of a national park. This is not a zoo, you built your Omaha suburban style condo on the grounds of the elks natural grazing area. All you people from Omaha pay attention, this time of year the elk mommies are having elk babies if you get near the elk babies expect to get the shit kicked out of you. If you leave your pets out the mountain lions and coyotes will have a snack. You are not on top of the food chain here. Bears are hungry and love sugar water, bird seed, and a juicy bag -o- trash, they do not read no trespassing signs very well, and are very very strong. Our limp wrested town government has not taken the necessary steps to create land use and zoning regulations to keep our town compatible with the surrounding natural environment. So we now have a mix of suburbanites in Bermuda shorts and hungry dangerous wild life. Want the best wildlife viewing anywhere? Go downtown about 11:00 PM you are likely to see fox, raccoons, mountain lions, coyote, elk, deer, bear, kind of the night clean up crew.
“Save The Peak Season”
This weekend the traffic was bumper to bumper for hours on end all over town. Your elected town officials have committed $300,000.00 of our tax dollars to run a shuttle system for the next three years for the national park. Did anyone of your elected officials suggest that the air pollution created by all this traffic is dangerously high at Elkhorn and Moraine, especially at this altitude when the temperature reaches eighty degrees Fahrenheit and more? The ozone must be incredible. Was it even suggested that spending your money on an air quality monitoring program would be a good idea for the health of every Estes Park citizen and would run pre-concurrent-post of this trial run bus nonsense. Naaa, ignorance is bliss and besides the mayor was to busy in Washington kissing butts working toward wilderness status for RMNP. Maybe hizzonor should read the press clipping again about what national travel writers think about the blight Estes Park is on RMNP, great idea your honor a sappy tourist town next to a wilderness area. A yard full of weeds and hizzonor is off to improve the neighbor’s lawn. Lets send Mark Udall a copy of the National Geographic Travelers gateway community addition. Cool
Back to the elk, when you build your golf coarse where the elk once grazed on the natural flora and fauna, is anyone shocked that the elk would acquire a taste for good old Kentucky Blue Grass, watered every day and kept cool and green? One more good idea maybe the midnight snipers can pop off a few practice rounds at the Samson memorial bronze, you know, kind of get the windage before the main event. Aren’t intergovernmental relationships suppose to work both ways, now we will have go view elk in the land fill next to the old ski lift towers from Hidden Valley, know what I mean?
Here’s a new X sport; ride your BMX bike on the lake trail during elk caving season or on the golf coarse during the rut. I personally would pay to watch.
