Cheyenne mountain

[Vera]

OK, maybe it's a stupid question, but I'd like to know it.
Cheyenne mountain is only one mountain of that name or it's a range of mountains?

 

[skydiver]

i think it may be part of the rockies. it is located pretty much right next door to pikes peak just to the southwest of colorado springs in colorado. it's 9500 feet tall or so and immediately recognizable cause it's got dozens of antenna on top and is technically unstable cause they've carved so much out of the inside of it that it's a little too hollow.
i do know it is located literally right across the street from fort carson, in fact they share the same highway exit.
you can see cheyenne mountain from most of colorado springs and maybe from miles away, largely cause the area immediately to the east is relatively flat.
it's covered in trees, apsen and pine and the dirt is this odd yellowish, red. or maybe it just looks that way contrasted with the green of the trees.
it is surrounded by dozens of other mountains of varying height.

hope that helps

 

[Overworked]

And?

Another Cheyene mountain question. Was it once a missle silo as depicted in ep '1969'?

 

[skydiver]

that i dunno for sure but i kinda doubt it simply cause for a missle to launch it'd either have to blast through tons of granite or the silo would have to be next to the mountain. or there would have to be a nice big trap door which would be an incredibly vulnerable part of the facility.
i seem to remember from some special on the discovery channel that it was built during the cold war when they discovered that camp david, which was built to be sort of a custers last stand in case of nuclear war was discovered to provide inadequate protection from the newer missles. basically camp david started out as a bunker but the more powerful missles would blast is to smitherenes so they decided to put norad under a mountain.
from what i remember most of norad is subterranean which will alledgedly protect it from the nice powerful nukes we have now.

you can find the darndest things on the net. i did a search on cheyenne mountain and didn't come up with much, but norad...there's a lot.
just follow the bouncing links, assuming they work and you'll know more than you ever wanted to know about norad
http://www.peterson.af.mil/norad/portal.jpg

http://www.peterson.af.mil/norad/index.htm

http://www.peterson.af.mil/norad/cmphotos.htm

http://www.peterson.af.mil/norad/chrono.htm

http://www.spacecom.af.mil/usspace/cmocfb.htm



[Edited by skydiver on 11-01-2000 at 03:12 PM]

 

[Martouf]

I saw a documentary on Cheyenne mountain and it is a missile silo correscT?

 

[Martouf]

Heh, don't worry to reply, i read you post Sky.....

 

[Vera]

Many thanks for the interesting info, skydiver.

 

[Martouf]

Yes, its almost as though they do the filiming inside the mountain isn't it?