One person's "eyesore" is another person's "historic" - glad the old wire is being removed, but let the poles remain for hikers to find in the decades to come ...
There's a couple of old powerline remnants within RMNP - poles cut, only the low stumps remain ... one went from McGraw Ranch to the North Fork Patrol cabin, and is still (barely) visible in aerial imagery ... it was more visible in earlier aerial photos of a few decades ago ...