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Rocky Mountain National Park
(2019/7/15 13:44:00)
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earth turns and wind burns
(2024/12/24 14:07:55)
Rocky Mountain National Park
(2019/7/15 13:44:00)
Being new to the area and a good time of year to visit Rocky Mountain National Park. We decided
to be tourists this day. Knowing it gets busy up there, we left early and went straight to the top visitor center. It's 12,00ft MSL so it is cooler and likely
to get thunderstorms in the afternoon anyway.
There are
surprisingly few trails from the Alpine Ridge visitor center up top, those few get all the tourist traffic. Our timing was good.
The views
are outstanding. In the background the "Never Summer Mountains"
As we walked
up the Alpine Ridge overlook I noticed a bunch of elk antlers, at first I thought they were statues.
It wasn't
until the return that I realized they were real. I couldn't resist watching these magnificent beasts for a while.
This Coyote
nachalantly crossed the road in front of us while we were waiting at some road works. Mt Ida and Mt Julian posed for us above.
Iceberg pass
and the tundra zone.
Mushroom
rocks, interestingly : the Dark-colored rock in the cap is Gneisses (is late Paleoproterozoic) and Cream-colored rock in the mushroom stork is Silver
Plume Granite (early Mesoproterozoic) the base is 300 Million years younger...
Much lower
elevation at "Many Parks Overlook". Estes Park is over my right shoulder, along with the Needles.
Then we
headed to Horse shoe falls, it looked a nice spot for a picnic.
Alluvial.
Maddy took
this picture !
Horse shoe
falls.
Alan ?
There are
surprisingly few trails from the Alpine Ridge visitor center up top, those few get all the tourist traffic. Our timing was good.
The views
are outstanding. In the background the "Never Summer Mountains"
As we walked
up the Alpine Ridge overlook I noticed a bunch of elk antlers, at first I thought they were statues.
It wasn't
until the return that I realized they were real. I couldn't resist watching these magnificent beasts for a while.
This Coyote
nachalantly crossed the road in front of us while we were waiting at some road works. Mt Ida and Mt Julian posed for us above.
Iceberg pass
and the tundra zone.
Mushroom
rocks, interestingly : the Dark-colored rock in the cap is Gneisses (is late Paleoproterozoic) and Cream-colored rock in the mushroom stork is Silver
Plume Granite (early Mesoproterozoic) the base is 300 Million years younger... 
Much lower
elevation at "Many Parks Overlook". Estes Park is over my right shoulder, along with the Needles.
Then we
headed to Horse shoe falls, it looked a nice spot for a picnic.
Alluvial.
Maddy took
this picture !
Horse shoe
falls.
Alan ?execution time : 0.009 sec