Photo of the Day
2016
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12/29 - Snow trail
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12/28 - Conditions at Bear Lake for the last week of 2016. Hallett Peak cuts through a shroud of clouds.
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9/26 - East Face of Longs Peak on a September morn.
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9/22 - Fly-fishing at Forth Lk in the East Inlet basin.
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9/21 - Fifth Lake, Upper East Inlet basin, with Isolation Peak
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9/20 - A bighorn sheep crosses an alpine hillside above Spirit Lk.
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9/15 - Looking down the East Inlet drainage toward Grand Lake from the Boulder/Grand Pass with Lk Verna & Spirit Lk.
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9/14 - Hikers traverse Lake of Many Winds in Wild Basin before ascending the Boulder/Grand Pass.
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9/13 - Hikers at Keplinger Lk
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9/12 - South side of Pagoda Mtn, Longs Pk, and Mt Meeker from the shoulder of Mt Orton.
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8/2 - The 1/2 mile Coyote Valley trail in the expansive Kawuneeche Valley offers innumerable benches for quite contemplation.
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7/27 - Andrews Tarn with Andrews Glacier, Alpine Avens & Kings Crown
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7/18 - Peaceful morning in the Loch Vale.
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7/15 - Unnamed Lake sits at the south side base of Pagoda Mtn and Longs Pk.
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6/8 - A bumble bee pollinating Golden Banner flowers.
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6/6 - Golden Banner dots the landscape along the Beaver Mountain trail. With Longs Peak.
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6/5 - Returning to the high country. Sunset on the Upper Ute trail.
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5/30 - A Green-tailed Towhee brings in a glorious day singing a beautiful song, with Ypsilon Mtn in the background. On the Beaver Mountain trail.
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5/27 - Mt Chapin, Mt Chiquita, & Ypsilon Mt, Horseshoe Park & Endovalley. Spring is beginning to reach the lower meadows.
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5/25 - Orographic conditions bring a build up of clouds swirling around Mt Meeker and Longs Peak.
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5/18 - Nelson Larkspur (Delphinium nuttalianum) The common name honors Aven Nelson, husband of Ruth Aston Nelson that studied and wrote about the plants of Rocky Mountain National Park in the mid 1900's.
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5/16 - Aspen trees at the lower elevations of the Park are now sprouting new leaves.
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5/5 - American Pasqueflower
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5/4 - Colorado Rockies spring. Fresh Snow on Longs Peak provides a backdrop for flowering aspens on an afternoon hike along the Beaver Mtn trail.
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4/22 - Hallett Peak & Flattop Mtn in afternoon early spring sun.
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4/13 - "What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility." - Albert Einstein
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4/12 - Cutleaf Daisy blooms throughout the summer in the montane.
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4/11 - Sagebrush Buttercups are another early spring flower at the lower elevations.
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4/10 - The Pasqueflower becomes a place of fine dining.
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4/9 - The Easter Daisy, one of the first wildflowers of spring, is blooming now at lower elevations.
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4/7 - Tyndall Gorge with Hallett Pk, Tyndall Glacier, & Flattop Mtn
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4/6 - Moraine Park, elev. 8,160ft. The upper Big Thompson R. is free of ice but is still running low.
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4/5 - Sprague Lake, elev. 8,688′. Snow was melting on the trail and the ice on the lake was thawing.
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4/4 - Early Spring conditions at Bear Lake, elev. 9475'
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4/3 - Loch Vale with Powell Pk, Taylor Glacier, Taylor Pk, and The Sharkstooth
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4/1 - Ice over Beaver Brook retreats and reveals clear snow melt water as spring runoff begins.
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3/31 - Ice begins to melt over Beaver Brook. The spring temperature fluctuations can create layers of very thin shatterable ice capturing a zillion frozen air bubbles.
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3/29 - Upper Beaver Meadows montane with Mummy Range.
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3/28 - Sunny Sunday. Chiefs Head Pk, Arrowhead, & McHenrys Pk with Storm Peak in foreground.
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3/16 - Spectacular Ypsilon Mtn showing a slight breeze off the summit on a beautiful blue ski morning.
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3/2 - A little early spring snow.
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2/22 - Rock art along the Fern Lake trail.
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2/17 - Open water on the Upper Big Thompson River, along the Fern Lake trail.
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2/16 "Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher." - William Wordsworth
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2/15 - A winter's day, Fern Lake Rd.
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1/29 - “A heart without dreams is like a bird without feathers.” - Suzy Kassem
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1/28 - It's difficult to judge just how thick the ice is at Bierstadt Lake, but staring deep into the frozen air bubbles in the ice, it seems to be as thick as the universe.
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1/27 - Sunlight cuts through onto Taylor Peak, as clouds begin to form over the Front Range mountains.
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1/26 - The Front Range from Bierstadt Lake.
On this day, brief winds occasionally sweep across the lake giving a sense of how intense standing in this spot could be during a full blown wind storm. Those winds have a dramatic impact on the landscape.
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1/25 - The Bierstadt Lake trail from Bear Lake is well packed.
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1/22 - "In the woods, we return to reason and faith." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1/21 - "I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles." ~ Anne Frank
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1/19 - "In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." ~ Albert Camus
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1/18 - Clouds continue to shroud the high peaks. Longs Peak as viewed from the Bierstadt Moraine trail.
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1-14 - "Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys." ~ Mary Austin
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1/13 - "There is something of the marvelous in all things of nature." ~ Aristotle
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1/12 - The NPS is reporting a snow depth of 28" at Bear Lake with packed snow on most trails. A good winter start!
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1/11 - The Sharkstooth cuts through clouds swirling over Taylor Peak
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