Normally I’d wait another year to make it an even hundred, but what the heck. Happy posthumous 99th today to Flying W Ranch founder Russ Wolfe. He was born on Jan. 25, 1925 and passed away a few years back in 2019. A Gazette remembrance is here.
Russ used to take potshots at me with his shotgun when I’d cut across his property from Mountain Shadows to access trails on National Forest land to the west. He was never a particularly big a**hole about it, but being an old school kinda guy, he just felt it was his natural God-given right as a landowner to do so. No hard feelings, Russ. Either you were a lousy shot or maybe your heart was never really in scoring a direct hit. Heaven only knows.
Also, congrats on the post-Waldo-Canyon fire reopening of the family’s Chuckwagon Supper and Flying W Wrangler entertainment biz on the ranch. That was always a colorful part of the fabric of the Colorado Springs community. Potshots or not, I’m glad it’s back.
I think the Flying W still winters in Tucson. Once is entertaining but haven’t looked for it in recent years.