More from in and around Rocky Mountain National Park.
At the edge of Dream Like, with Hallet Peak as a backdrop.
A cascade at the brink - just below Lake of Glass, on the way to Timberline Falls. The Loch in the distance below.
Looking West towards the Never Summer Mountains, from above tree line on Twin Sisters.
Looking West from the flank of Twin Sisters.
A cascade edges the tailings of the old Eugenia Mine.
A Lustrous Copper, Lycaena cupreus, a denizen of the Alpine Zone.
Whipple's Penstemon, Penstemon whippleanus.
Elkweed or Green Gentian, Frasera speciosa.
Elkweed or Green Gentian, Frasera speciosa.
Cinquefoil, Potentilla sp.
Close-up with a Sticky Geranium, Geranium viscoissimum.
Looking down Tyndall Gorge from just above Tyndall Glacier at around 12,000 ft. The "glacier" is now reduced to a small dirty patch of snow by rising temperatures. In the distance, Pool of Jade, then Dream Lake, and a glimpse of Bear Lake Road below.
Long's Peak and Glacier Gorge in the distance, and a glimpse of Dream Lake below, from the Flattop Mountain Trail.
A pair of bull elk, up high above the Summer heat.
Bull elk catch some early morning sun.
The Continental Divide between Milner Pass and Mt. Ida.
Emerald Lake, with Hallet Peak and rocky spires rising above Tyndall Gorge.
Chaos Canyon below Lake Haiyaha.
Afternoon clouds fore-sage a thunderstorm as they gather above the helmet of Long's Peak.
Fallen tree.