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Autumn 2013 $4.00 QUARTERLY ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATURE ASSOCIATION Autumn 2013 $4.00 QUARTERLY A PLACE OF PEOPLE Mountain National Park has the power by Don Irwin to change people’s lives, and in doing As we approach the 2015 so, those people bring commitment to centennial anniversary of the conserving and sustaining the park for establishment of Rocky Mountain future generations. National Park, it is certain that many Pause for a moment and consider of us will be reflecting on historical why you first joined the Rocky highlights of the past 100 years, the Mountain Nature Association, or continued impact that Rocky has on donated to RMNA for a special park our individual lives, and on what the project. Was it because of the impact next 100 years will bring. Some of us that this place had on your life? long nostalgically for the earlier eras Consider for a moment a couple of when there were fewer people here. individuals from Rocky’s earlier history Others decry the multitudes that now for whom their first visits to the area come to experience the readily changed their lives forever. Abner accessible wilderness that is Rocky Sprague was born in Illinois in 1850 and Mountain National Park to seek the by age 14 had accompanied his family to increasingly harder to find solitude of a cattle ranch west of Loveland. His first that wilderness. Still others wonder visit to the area that was to become whether Rocky is being loved to death Rocky Mountain National Park occurred and how park managers will deal with in 1868. In his memoirs he wrote “I can the impact of increasing numbers of see it as I saw it then, but cannot describe visitors in the years ahead. it or my feelings. .The surprise of it For me, Rocky has always been a made us speechless. If I live to be 100, place of people. After 22 years as a I have a feeling that I will have to grow volunteer and seasonal Interpretive very feebleminded if I forget that trip.” Ranger, I have come to realize that That trip when he was 18 years old people need the park and the proved to be a pivotal experience in the experiences that they have here. The young man’s life. By 1898, he and his park also needs the people that come wife were running the Sprague Ranch here to sustain its future. The and Hotel in Moraine Park where they common denominator is that such a entertained a guest who later would beautiful scenic place as Rocky become a resort owner herself, Imogene (People, continued on page 2 ) 2 Rocky Mountain Nature Association Quarterly (People, continued) Blue Lake Photo by John Conroy Greene McPherson. In a short span of have been one of the many people that foreground with Hallett Peak towering 12 years, Imogene went from visitor to when they are not hiking the trails in in the background. As we passed them, homesteader, to resort owner. She Rocky they are anticipating the details the older man turned and asked us to opened the Moraine Lodge in 1910 of their next visit. Since 2001, I have take their picture. He explained that he when she was 66 years old. However, been fortunate to live here full-time. I had first been to Bear Lake nearly 50 she recognized immediately the charm still am awestruck by the in-your-face years before and on this, his second trip of this scenic place. In her diary entry grandeur and accessibility of this after so many years, he had brought his for August 9, 1898, she wrote, “Arrived remarkable place. wife so that she could know for herself here 6:30 p.m. Very tired. THE And I am still awestruck when other what he had been trying to describe to GRANDEST PLACE YET.” people share with me their stories of the her for so long. For Abner and Imogene, their first impact that Rocky Mountain National Of course, we complied with their experiences in this special place changed Park has had on their lives. When I am simple request and were soon on our their lives forever. Their commitment to tempted to grumble about the hordes of way. As we left them immersed in the the stewardship of the area was part of people along Trail Ridge Road or beauty of Bear Lake, I silently vowed the effort that resulted in the formation of accompanying me as I hike a trail, I that I would never again be so annoyed Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. invariably recall an incident from many by other visitors who were slowing Not all of us have had life changing years before. down to give the Rocky Mountain experiences as the result of our first visit We were hurrying to get to the Bear experience more opportunities to impact to Rocky Mountain National Park. Lake parking lot because we were later their lives. Perhaps you have had experiences than we wanted to be in beginning a As the years have past, I have similar to my own. My first visit to hike on the Fern/Odessa Trail. As luck become more and more aware that Rocky was in 1962 with my parents and would have it, when we rounded the Rocky is and always will be a place of my older brother and sister when I was curve into Moraine Park, we found people. I have also come to realize that at the impressionable age of 16. At that ourselves behind a much slower moving the continued stewardship of this very time, the park failed to make much of an vehicle. By the time we reached the special place is not just in the hands of impression on me. I remember having curve by Hallowell Park, I’m sure I was park managers but requires the car trouble on Trail Ridge Road and the muttering unflattering remarks about the commitment of the great many of us for plums Mom bought at Brodie’s Market driver. As tempting as it may have been whom the experiences in Rocky while Dad was having the car looked at with few other cars on the road, I could Mountain National Park have changed by a mechanic across the street. I have not bring myself to pass on the double our lives. With that commitment we searched my memory countless times for yellow, so I remained behind the car all will be able assure that not only our an image of Longs Peak, a recollection the way to Bear Lake. We pulled into a grandchildren but our grandchildren’s of a hike around Bear Lake, an parking space and began gathering our grandchildren and beyond will have the emotional reaction to one of the grand gear when we noticed, what appeared to opportunity for their own Rocky vistas along Trail Ridge Road. Sadly, be at the time to me, an elderly couple Mountain experiences that will change little remains from that visit and exit their car and begin walking towards their lives forever. certainly no grand impact happened to Bear Lake. change my life. With our backpacks secured and our My second and subsequent visits, boots tightly laced, we too headed however, did change my life forever. towards the lake and our intended Don Irwin has been a volunteer and My wife and I made our first visit trailhead. As we approached Bear Lake, seasonal interpretive ranger in Rocky together to the park in 1979 and I was we again saw the couple taking in the Mountain National Park for 22 years. He awestruck. Since that second visit, I amazing view of the lake in the lives in Estes Park. Rocky Mountain Nature Association Quarterly 3 Celebrate Rocky Mountain National Park Ask Nancy Support Our Custom [RMNA Quarterly Editor Nancy Wilson will attempt to unearth answers to any questions asked by RMNA Colorado License Plate members and park visitors. If you are curious about (Registered Colorado vehicles only) something in or about the park, write: Nancy Wilson, RMNA, PO Box 3100, Estes Park, CO 80517. Or email her at [email protected]] On a recent visit to the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, there was a park ranger giving a nature talk. Separately, there was also a table full of literature and a person who was proselytizing the Bible. What does this have to do with Rocky Mountain National Park? Doesn't the Constitution (more particularly the Bill of Rights) disallow this? Actually, it is just the opposite: the Bill of Rights, First Amendment, specifically allows this. It reads in part, “Congress shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the The Rocky Mountain Nature Association, in partnership with press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...” Because Rocky Mountain National Park, will introduce this special the visitor center is a federal building, the park is required by law license plate that will be available to Colorado registered vehicle to have a “Freedom of Speech”area allotted. Most federal owners. Featuring a magnificent bull elk and alpine flowers government buildings are required to have these areas, and at most under a starry sky, this license plate will be available by 2015 to parks they position them near the visitor centers. While these coincide with Rocky Mountain National Park’s Centennial "Freedom of Speech" folks are allowed to stand behind their tables and have people approach them of their own will, the primary celebration. requirement of this right is that they cannot interfere with park We will bring a bill for this plate to the Colorado legislature visitors or operations in any way.
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