Continued...
A little further up and I got to meet yet more of the neighbors.
Big Horn Rams, and the mascot for Colorado State University
Seeing Big Horns is a surprisingly rare treat. There are lots of them in the Rockies. There just aren't enough roads to give people access to easy viewing (good!).
Getting as close as I did would have made a bad day incredible.
Getting to see them knocking horns was... Wow!
A view of the Rockies looking west from just below the summit.
And a view to the north along the Front Range.
For our science nerds: Womble Observatory, the third-highest optical/infrared observatory in the world and when it was built it was the highest.
Another view of Summit Lake:
This time, from the summit. The path along the western bank of the lake (to the right in the photo) is the trail to the Chicago Lakes lookout point.
Sunset from the top of the world, or at least this part of it:
It's hard to believe that all this is less than two hours and 60 miles (about 35 straight line) from downtown Denver. So much of the land here is still relatively untouched by the encroachment of mankind. I really wish the fucking developers would leave it that way!
All-in-all, despite getting rained on (torrential downpour) twice, it was a truly fabulous day.
A little further up and I got to meet yet more of the neighbors.
Big Horn Rams, and the mascot for Colorado State University
Seeing Big Horns is a surprisingly rare treat. There are lots of them in the Rockies. There just aren't enough roads to give people access to easy viewing (good!).
Getting as close as I did would have made a bad day incredible.
Getting to see them knocking horns was... Wow!
A view of the Rockies looking west from just below the summit.
And a view to the north along the Front Range.
For our science nerds: Womble Observatory, the third-highest optical/infrared observatory in the world and when it was built it was the highest.
Another view of Summit Lake:
This time, from the summit. The path along the western bank of the lake (to the right in the photo) is the trail to the Chicago Lakes lookout point.
Sunset from the top of the world, or at least this part of it:
It's hard to believe that all this is less than two hours and 60 miles (about 35 straight line) from downtown Denver. So much of the land here is still relatively untouched by the encroachment of mankind. I really wish the fucking developers would leave it that way!
All-in-all, despite getting rained on (torrential downpour) twice, it was a truly fabulous day.
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