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By Alan Silverstein, ajs@frii.com (page updated Tue May 6 18:43:23 MDT 2025)

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On Saturday May 3 I hiked up Palisade Mountain, 8259', west of Loveland on the north side of the Big Thompson Canyon, and visited the CAP aircraft crash site from Nov 23, 2024, where I lost a dear friend.

I'd been up Palisade twice before, but both times were the long, hard way cross-country from the canyon floor... And the second time was 36 years ago! Today I went up Storm Mountain Drive a bit west of Drake for the first time in 48 years living in Colorado to a small unmarked USFS trailhead.

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