My Pawnee Buttes day trip.

That's sad, an epidemic struck these people?

scribble scribble scribble adds Pawnee Buttes to list of "must see places."

Very nice. Thanks for taking the trouble to share with the desk bound among us.

Great trip report. I just came through there Monday morning (the 25th) on my way back to Bellevue Nebraska from Littleton CO on my 1100GS. I would love to explore more out there.

that influenza outbreak dwarfed anything we've seen in our lifetimes. more died worldwide from influenza than were actually killed in the battles of wwI, which was raging at the same time.

Great pics. I grew up in Ft. Collins and have hiked there half dozen times. Nice memories.

From Wikipedia:

The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup> spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. Between 50 and 100 million died, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human history.<sup id="cite_ref-Patterson1_3-0" class="reference">[4]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-cdc2006_4-0" class="reference">[5]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference">[6]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference">[7]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference">[8]</sup> An estimated 50 million people, about 3% of the world's population (1.6 billion at the time), died of the disease. Some 500 million, or 1/3 were infected.<sup id="cite_ref-cdc2006_4-1" class="reference">[5]

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