A year later - reflecting on the East Troublesome Fire
Even a year later this post is hard to write- we were one of the lucky ones but we have neighbors and friends that lost so much. The William’s Fork fire spent much of August and September 2020 burning far to the southwest of our cabin. We had many blood red sunsets and a few smoky days. A new fire - the east troublesome fire, was first reported on October 14, 2020 (to our west). Initially it seemed pretty far off, even big fires in Colorado don’t travel that far, especially this late in the season. We had headed down to Denver from the cabin in mid October to take care of some things and had a seasonal renter who was planning to move it at the end of October. Throughout the day of October 21st, it seemed like the fire was intensifying the smoke was incredibly thick - it looked like night during the day. The night of October 21 the unthinkable happened, the east troublesome blew up - the size of the fire exploded from 18,550 acres to 187,964 acres in appx 24...