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Lawn & Crystal Lakes
I haven’t been up the Lawn Lake trail in a few years, nor in the Park all summer so it sounded like a good plan for the day. The hike up was surprisingly mostly quiet and all to myself.I stopped to do some long exposure shots of the waterfall/cascades…
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Smoking Red Deer Mt
The sun is coming up later these days. I left TH just a little before 6:00 am and it was just starting to get light. I was making decent time given the wildfire smoke and my lack of mountain time the past few weeks. I decided to take the Coney… -
Stanley Mountain
Cloudless skies and quickly melting snow on the peaks made for a bland sunrise and landscape photos in general.Surprisingly, it turned into a wildlife day on the tundra.
Once I slogged up the switchback I was rewarded with two ptarmigan that were molting. They were beautiful with their summer…
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Colorado Mines Pk & Mt. Flora
I hit the trail around 5:30ish, maybe earlier. Bummed, I was hoping for an earlier start to be above treeline for sunrise. I did catch some alpine glow on the nearby peaks through the trees. The clouds were sparse, so not a big deal that I got a later start… -
Eldorado Canyon State Park - Morning Light
I was parked in the lower lot by 5:20 am. I took my last drink of coffee and started hiking up the road to a spot I reconned last weekend, just below the start of the Fowler Trail. This is the first time I have been the first in the…