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Promised these some time ago...

Rock Mountain National Park:
Bear Lake, early in our hike. Sky is blue with only a few clouds, weather is perfect. What a day to be enjoying one of Colorado's most beautiful places.


Spirit Lake, our second scheduled stop. The lillies were blooming. First time I've managed to time it right in years.


And a close up of a bloom:


Another view of Spirit Lake, this time from above. Clouds are moving in and the temp has dropped a bit but it's still a good day for a hike.


We got off trail a bit for a photo of the stream that flows out of Dream Lake and into Spirit Lake. Weather has turned and we've gotten a little rain, but we're pushing on!


Some of the wildflowers to be seen along the trails. Not sure if these are alpine or sub-alpine. I really need to learn more about this stuff.


The last stop of our scheduled and soon to be interrupted hike, Dream Lake.


We had many other stops planned and tried to push on to Lake Haiyaha, but the weather had other ideas.


Shortly after this we could see that above 12,000 ft. it was turning to snow so we finally gave in and headed back.

By the time we got back to Spirit Lake...


Argh....
Such is weather in Colorado, especially the high-country. We could have waited it out and gone on to visit some of the more remote lakes, but it also could have dropped into the low 40's and given us hypothermia. So, we headed back...

On our way out, we decided (since the weather was once again fantastic) to stop in the Moraine Basin where I got some photos of this guy:

Anyone know what type of bird this is?!?

Well, hope you all enjoyed the photos.