Back in school, we learnt that temperature drops 6°C every 1,000m and a metre is about three feet.
Manitou Springs is at an elevation of 6,412ft and Pike Peak’s elevation is 14,110ft – that’s 7,698ft more. I did some rough calculations in my head 7,500 / 3 = 2,500m. 2.5 x 6°C = 15°C drop in temperature! Whoa!
I had not remembered the conversion for Fahrenheit to Celsius, but at least, I get why the show was still so thick in March and covering the tracks.
There were deep footprints in the snow, yet they were not in a left-right fashion. Did the person hop? Oooohhh, wait, a rabbit maybe! How cute!
And out on the horizon where it looks real flat, like there’s not much going on, that’s Kansas... (followed by laughter from the passengers onboard the Pikes Peak cog railway train)
The train tried its best to get to the summit but eventually, we arrived at a dead-end of snow. It was pretty surreal to be surrounded by snow almost as high as the train.
Like everyone else, I attempted to dig my finger into it. For a good few minutes, I couldn’t feel my index finger anymore.
We did not make it to the summit. We could not even see what was beyond the snow. Unca Don and Patsy Rose said we would come back again in summer.
The cog railway ended its service in 2018. There was a decision to sell the old trains away and make way for new ones. New trains require a new set of cog railway so while the reconstruction team is hard at work, we shall check on Pikes Peak updates now and then.
Looking forward to its reopening in 2021!
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