No - not those Smoky Mountains. I am referring to Colorado's smoky mountains, not to mention Colorado's Front Range, with Denver recording 37 straight days of poor air quality. On some of those days, Denver has suffered the worst air pollution of any city in the world. Number one at last! Most of the smoke is coming from the Dixie Fire in California, but there are many more fires across the West right now. Just a year ago, those fires were burning in Colorado, and the Cameron Peak fire was dangerously close to Fort Collins. This year, in Colorado, the problem is heavy rainfall, which has triggered mudslides at the site of those burn scars that have caused destruction in both Glenwood and Poudre Canyons. Let's hope they put out those damn fires across the West soon. And by the way, I took the above photograph as I was driving back to Denver from Breckenridge, my favorite mountain town in Colorado. Still pretty despite all that smoke.
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