Cascade in Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado — The American Mountains (Southwest)
A Look From The Top
Photographed by Charles T. Harrell, July 1, 2011
1. A Look From The Top Marker
Inscription.
A Look From The Top. . Pikes Peak You are at 13,380 feet, 4,078 meters Feeling Spacey? In the United States you can not get much closer to outer space than this! Are you dizzy and short of breath? No wonder, you are 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above sea level! There is 40% less oxygen here as down below. Beware, thinner atmosphere accelerated sun burning.
Alpine: Above the Forest. You have reached the harshest environment on Pikes Peak. From the ? do not grow here? There are some hard hips from can not endure. The moister robbing winds and zero temperatures massive snow packs and thin soil. Have you noticed any of these alpine hardships today?
How is the Weather? Like no where you have ever been? Wind speeds up to 120 miles per hour? (193 km/hr) Temperature extremes from -60 F to 64 F. Snow drifts up to 20 feet deep. Pike National Forest, Colorado Division of Wildlife
Pikes Peak
You are at 13,380 feet, 4,078 meters
Feeling Spacey? In the United States you can not get much closer to outer space than this! Are you dizzy and short of breath? No wonder, you are 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) above sea level! There is 40% less oxygen here as down below. Beware, thinner atmosphere accelerated sun burning.
Alpine: Above the Forest. You have reached the harshest environment on Pikes Peak. From the ? do not grow here? There are some hard hips from can not endure. The moister robbing winds and zero temperatures massive snow packs and thin soil. Have you noticed any of these alpine hardships today?
How is the Weather?
Like no where you have ever been? Wind speeds up to 120 miles per hour? (193 km/hr) Temperature extremes from -60 F to 64 F. Snow drifts up to 20 feet deep.
Pike National Forest, Colorado Division of Wildlife
Erected by Pike National Forest, Colorado Division of Wildlife.
Location. 38° 50.79′ N, 105° 3.089′ W. Marker is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in El Paso County. It is in Cascade. It is on Pikes Peak Toll Road. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Cascade CO 80809, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Colorado’s Front Range and in Pikes Peak Region. It is also in the American Mountain West. Globally, it is in North America, the Rocky Mountains, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Comancherνa.
Atlantic Ocean Watershed; rainfall on this side eventually reaches the Atlantic Ocean.
Photographed by Michael Stroud, May 29, 1994
3. Looking Westward, from summit of Pikes Peak
Pacific Ocean Watershed; rainfall on this side eventually reaches the Pacific Ocean.
Credits. This page was last revised on February 7, 2023. It was originally submitted on August 8, 2011, by Charles T. Harrell of Woodford, Virginia. This page has been viewed 1,172 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos:1. submitted on August 8, 2011, by Charles T. Harrell of Woodford, Virginia. 2, 3. submitted on January 20, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.
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