Students have been left disoriented, confused and with no sense of direction due to sudden dense cloud coverage over the Pikes Peak region.  

The persistent fog has obscured the mountain range, leaving them unable to determine which direction is west. Students are now being faced with the stupefying challenge of pulling out their paper maps of campus from their freshman year GPS courses. 

Vara Smart, a professor from the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was taken aback by how the cloud coverage has interrupted her daily routine. “Not having any mountains to base my direction on this week has been a huge blow to my intelligence. I googled ‘Where’s west?’ and that’s a real low for me,” she said. 

Commuter students have been disproportionately devastated by this weather phenomenon. Junior Geography major, Derreck Chunly-Challenged, a disgruntled commuter student, had to abandon his car in the rubble of the former main campus parking lot and try to navigate on foot. 

“I’ve spent my entire life depending on the mountains to tell me where to go, but I just kept driving straight for hours hoping I was going north, and I ended up in Pueblo. It’s basically the Wizard of Oz at this point because I might as well be in Kansas,” Chunly-Challenged said.  

Shuttle services have been canceled due to an influx of students, including sophomore logic major Ware Amigoin, relying on the shuttle drivers for navigation. 

“I got on the west shuttle and ended up at University Hall. I didn’t even know that part of campus existed,” Amigoin said. 

Although the cloud coverage over the Pikes Peak region is expected to last around 20 minutes in total followed by clear skies, partial cloud coverage, sun, hail and snow all at the same time, students are reporting that they fear they will be lost forever. 

Editor’s Note: Scribble is the satirical section of the Scribe. 

Pikes Peak covered by clouds. Photo by Lillian Davis.