A couple of weekends ago Mr X and I did our longest hike of the summer up in the national park. It was 12 miles. We did one on the very western side of the park - an area in which we hadn't hiked yet.
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| Mr X at the beginning of the hike. We had to really bundle up for the first time in months since it was so cold that early in the morning. |
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| If you look closely at this picture you'll see that the plants (yes, there are wild strawberry plants in this mix) were covered in frost. |
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| This was a little pond we passed along our way. It had a thin sheet of ice that had formed on it overnight but by the time we passed by it in the afternoon it had all melted. |
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| A view of the ridge along our journey. |
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| Our hike took us passed the remains of an old mining settlement. |
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| Doesn't the Colorado River look surprisingly unimpressive? So sad. It's been a very dry summer here. Hopefully next year we fare better in that sense. |
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| I know that feeding the wildlife is frowned upon but this bird seemed really hungry. |
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| A ways after LuLu City you get to an area of RMNP referred to as "Little Yellowstone". I was kind of expecting some mud pots or something but I didn't see anything like that. It was pretty but it didn't remind me of Yellowstone much. |
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| We continued on passed Little Yellowstone and up to the top of a ravine and a waterfall where we stopped to have our lunch. By this time the frosty morning had given way to a beautiful warm afternoon. |
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| This was the view from our lunchtime perch. |
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