silver and gold
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traveller42! He is on a road trip and stopping here for the purpose of buying me beer and giving the guest room a dry run before my parents arrive on Thursday. But this is not why I am posting. Rather, Britt and I hiked up Silver Mountain (12,450') in the La Platas yesterday. Gorgeous, gorgeous day, the kind of crisp blue-sky day which is why autumn is my favorite season. We hung out on the summit for a long time (us and the flying ants, WTF?) and then merrily traipsed along the connecting ridge to Deadwood Mountain (12,285') and then down via the west ridge to the Neptune Creek jeep road, which, meh, and then along the La Plata Canyon road back to our truck, which, double meh. But! This kind of scenery only a half-hour's drive from our house!
That moon is rising RIGHT OVER the peak we climbed. (It's the highest one in that group; the others are just closer.) Photo taken on the way back to the truck. More pictures from the actual hike:
Pretty gold aspen! Although, looking back down from Silver's summit, you can see that it's not quite peak color time. But soon, real soon.
From Silver we took the ridge to Deadwood Mountain, which is a lovely S-curve in the sky:
Finally, here's a view looking back from Deadwood to the Silver Mountain summit. If you look at the original size you can see the background ridge is actually the very jaggedy peaks of the Needle range. And along with it, a "non-view" from Silver looking south to New Mexico, where the coal-fired power plants create a really ugly haze.
All 7 photos at Flickr.
traveller42! He is on a road trip and stopping here for the purpose of buying me beer and giving the guest room a dry run before my parents arrive on Thursday. But this is not why I am posting. Rather, Britt and I hiked up Silver Mountain (12,450') in the La Platas yesterday. Gorgeous, gorgeous day, the kind of crisp blue-sky day which is why autumn is my favorite season. We hung out on the summit for a long time (us and the flying ants, WTF?) and then merrily traipsed along the connecting ridge to Deadwood Mountain (12,285') and then down via the west ridge to the Neptune Creek jeep road, which, meh, and then along the La Plata Canyon road back to our truck, which, double meh. But! This kind of scenery only a half-hour's drive from our house!That moon is rising RIGHT OVER the peak we climbed. (It's the highest one in that group; the others are just closer.) Photo taken on the way back to the truck. More pictures from the actual hike:
Pretty gold aspen! Although, looking back down from Silver's summit, you can see that it's not quite peak color time. But soon, real soon.
From Silver we took the ridge to Deadwood Mountain, which is a lovely S-curve in the sky:
Finally, here's a view looking back from Deadwood to the Silver Mountain summit. If you look at the original size you can see the background ridge is actually the very jaggedy peaks of the Needle range. And along with it, a "non-view" from Silver looking south to New Mexico, where the coal-fired power plants create a really ugly haze.
All 7 photos at Flickr.
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