It seems like there are slightly more people from the region between, say, Cheyenne and Pueblo than statistics would justify. There might be some purpose (lens swaps or some such) in knowing who we are.

For the folks from elsewhere, the Front Range is the strip of Colorado where you can see both the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains - fast becoming a megalopolis. Denver is the center, but not necessarily the heart.

Front Rangers are a little different. We know, for example, that winter is NOT December/January/February, or June/July/August (for the ANZACs), but February/March/April.

Just curious.

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), March 14, 2002

Answers

Oh I definitely know what you mean by Front Range! I live in Boulder. We're getting some winter now aren't we??? Good to see a fellow Front Ranger/Leicaphile.

-- James (snodoggydogg@hotmail.com), March 14, 2002.

Another Boulderite here.

-- Stuart Dorman (stuart.dorman@us.pwcglobal.com), March 14, 2002.

Fort Collins...

-- Douglas Kinnear (douglas.kinnear@colostate.edu), March 14, 2002.

I don't mean to intrude, but I'm feeling left out...I'm in Southern California. I suppose we are a little different too. But I have a theory about that...

-- jeff (debontekou@yahoo.com), March 14, 2002.

Jeff: That's OK - Until I was 8 I grew up in Altadena - as I recall winters there were an 1/8th of an inch of snow between the grass blades once every 4 years. 8^)

If you're feeling left out - move to Colorado. It seems half of California already did! 8^) 8^)

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), March 14, 2002.

Andy-

It's funny, I live in Altadena. Maybe I bought your old house. :)

Jeff

-- jeff (debontekou@yahoo.com), March 14, 2002.

Not a Front Ranger, but I'm familiar with the term from reading John McPhee's superb trilogy on the geological history of North America. If you haven't read McPhee, run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore and pick up any of his titles. He won the Pullitzer for nonfiction a few years ago.

-- Luke Dunlap (luked@mail.utexas.edu), March 14, 2002.

I am about 8000 miles directly underneath the Front Range which I remember very fondly from my travels and visits to Boulder c. 1985. Can I belong to your group?

-- Mani Sitaraman (bindumani@pacific.net.sg), March 14, 2002.

Andy:

I lived in Boulder from 1964 to 1970. Does that count? When I moved there the population was about 26,000. You could go up on Flagstaff any day and not see another person.

Last time I was there I got lost.

Art

-- Art (AKarr90975@aol.com), March 14, 2002.

Lived in Fort Collins 1994-2001, now liiving in Denver (West Wash Park). We love Denver. Much more photography potential than up north.

-- Ken Geter (kgeter@yahoo.com), March 14, 2002.

I've a sister in Thornton - I think thats the town. From her place you used to be able to look out over the plains in one direction and from the front yard see mountains. I'm sure the plains are all burbs now (I was last there in the summer of 76!)

Is that what the front range is?

-- Charles (cbarcellona@telocity.com), March 14, 2002.

Jeff: 3771 Alzeda Rd. - just off Chaney Trail 'way up in the foothills above Loma Alta.

Mani: I won't exclude anyone - but if we happen to get a FRUG going or some such (?) 8000 miles may be a heck of a commute for meetings.... through solid rock. =8^o

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), March 15, 2002.

Best friends, I live in Belgium... not very far from LEICA SOLMS Germany (250km) . Can I play with you??

-- michel vandeput (michel.vandeput@ville.namur.be), March 15, 2002.

What I want to know from all you Boulderites is, what's the latest gossip on who killed Jon Benet?

-- Peter Hughes (ravenart@pacbell.net), March 15, 2002.

Another Denverite here. Here's a shot a had lying around from downtown Denver.

-- Peter G. Goldstein (peter.goldstein@us.cgeyc.com), March 15, 2002.