Pinecliffe Manifesto
Middle ground and right in between the big canyon and the free run to the Divide is Pinecliffe. Its a dramatic corner and a horse shoe around a place on the river called Boiling Gulch by the founders. Also the subject of the tightest curve on very unstraight line west of Rocky, CO. South Boulder Creek plays a poem of geologic history and sound written in deep granite walls. Tunnel 29 still plays host here and the daylighted 28, the gate keeper to the deep canyons that lead to Great High Plains. A train threads through here, an echo of steel wheels and fuel oil; still a magical sound one rarely forgets. These walls of granite are like an instrument, a violin’s strings vibrating a song of a miracle of engineering.
Some Fall color and gray skies bind the mood. Love those grades in these mountains.
