Cache la Poudre plaque where the powder was buried

[wwillson]

I stopped to see what this plaque says and learned something today.

https://rvthe.us/community/threads/origin-of-the-rivers-name-cache-la-poudre.706/

 

[RoadDukie]

That's a pretty canyon with as many curves as the Tail of the Dragon. I really enjoy the history of Colorado, but in the scale of time, it pales in comparison to the east coast. Almost everything is 1840's and later.

There's another plaque a bit farther up past Rustic that commerates the lives of two kayakers who died trying to run the falls on the Poudre.

 

[wwillson]

There's another plaque a bit farther up past Rustic that commerates the lives of two kayakers who died trying to run the falls on the Poudre.

I haven't been past Rustic. Most of my climbing on the bike is in Rist Canyon. That will make your legs tired, as it's about 2,500' of climbing in 7 miles.

 

[RoadDukie]

I haven't been past Rustic. Most of my climbing on the bike is in Rist Canyon. That will make your legs tired, as it's about 2,500' of climbing in 7 miles.

I wouldn't want to bike up the Poudre. As mentioned, it's twisty and not much wider than the two lanes! That plus the fact that everybody is looking at the scenery. The altitude is its own beast.

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Rather go around through Laramie than take Poudre Canyon to get to Fort Collins from North Park Colorado any day. Especially if the weather is bad. Did so over a period of twenty some years living in far northwest Colorado.

 

[c502cid]

I ran a towing company based in FTC and a branch in Cheyenne in the mid 80's. There is a ton of pretty places in No Co.

 

[Highlander 1459]

place names are interesting, if you can figure out what the meaning from a different language..
even better if you can find out why they named it that...

take Corpus Christi for example.... literally Body of Christ..
or Baton Rouge, literally Red Baton or Red Pole..

of course they also get bastardized into English when they were originally in another language..
for instance Amarillo is Yellow in Espanol and pronounced Ama REEYO, but Merikans call it Amarillo, pronouncing the l's...

how many of you are old enough to remember Beijing China being called Peking?
I'm sure it was just a hooked on phonics thing originally when the first European asked what the place was called
it sounded like PEE King to them.