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Rocky Mountain Tree Specialists has been family owned and locally operated since 1983.
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We also specialize in the installation of outdoor Christmas Tree lights!
Some of our displays include:
The El Pomar Foundation (at the Penrose House), The Garden of the Gods Club (large aspen tree, between entrance and valet) as well as several
residential displays. Also, the famous "Twin Towers" as featured in the article below
from The Gazette.
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"Rocky Mountain Tree Specialists" Tree Service including: Trimming, Removals, Shrub Design, Bracing and Cabling and Stump Removal, Colorado Springs, Tree Services, Tree Service, Bob Marchiani, RMTS, Colorado, Licensed and Insured, Holiday Lighting, Christmas Lights, Possibly the largest, lighted Christmas trees in Colorado, over 70 feet tall.
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RMTS In The Gazette!
Holidays have become a time to shine for these twins
Firs turn into beacons for I-25 traffic
By CARY LEIDER VOGRIN
THE GAZETTE December 2nd, 2006.
Like with most gifts, the cost is a secret. And it took professionals more than four days to wrap this particular pair of presents.
Margot Lane only hopes people enjoy them.
“I just hope they bring a smile — it’s our gift to Colorado Springs,” Lane said. “I hope that they bring some joy to people as they hurry down the highway.”
Lane is talking about the two towering white fir trees in the front yard of her North End home adjacent to Monument Valley Park.
For the eighth year, the 80-foot firs have been swathed in holiday bulbs.
And they may be the tallest Christmas trees around these parts.
“I know of none bigger than that,” said Bob Marchiani, owner of Rocky Mountain Tree Specialists, which hung the lights. They’re so big, in fact, that their lights require their own electrical unit.
At night, the trees are a bright beacon to thousands of motorists on Interstate 25. Many drivers undoubtedly exit the interstate to look for the perfect pyramids of lights.
It was Christmas 1999 when the Lanes first lighted one of the trees at their home on Culebra Avenue. They did so in honor of their son Bruce, who died of cancer at age 37.
When the family saw how much the public enjoyed them, a tradition was born, and lights were added on a second tree. The trees stay lit through New Year’s.
Lane said she receives notes of appreciation from strangers each year, and even in the summer, dogwalkers and bicyclists will stop to talk about the trees.
Marchiani said he thinks there are roughly 27,500 lights on the two trees — 550 strands, with 50 lights apiece.
“If I had known this, I would have kept a really good accurate count,” he said, shortly after getting all the lights up.
It took Marchiani and two employees 4½ days to get the job done. Part of the work included climbing into the limbs; Marchiani’s bucket truck falls 18 feet short of the treetops.
“To get the very tips, we do need to climb,” he said. “We start at the very top and work our way down. We learned many years ago to start at the top” to avoid breaking bulbs, he said.
Asked what particular method he uses in stringing the lights, Marchiani replied: “patience.”
Neither he nor Lane would reveal how much the service costs, but it’s certainly in the thousands of dollars.
And that doesn’t include the increased electricity bill.
“Each of those trees pulls 80 amps, I’ll have you know that, and that’s a lot,” Marchiani said.
That means each tree requires nearly as much power as an average house in Colorado Springs, according to Berwick Electric Co.
An arborist once told Lane that one of the firs was among the five most beautiful trees in Colorado Springs.
Lane said that her family — longtime Pepsi bottlers and distributors — enjoys sharing the trees’ beauty but that Marchiani cares about them just as much and tries to make them perfect for the holidays.
“These trees are his babies.”
CONTACT THE WRITER: 636-0236 or cary.vogrin@gazette.com
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