Reflection in Chasm Lake
Dawn in Rocky Mountain National Park. Ship's Prow at left, The Diamond face of Long's Peak at right.
Comet C/2011 L4 Pan-STARRS drops into the notch between Mt. Meeker and Long's Peak from a viewpoint in Lyons, Colorado.
Photo of the day - 28 Jun 2016
Sunrises, moon sets
A couple of nice sunrises last week:
A cloud bank lies just east of the Continental Divide, with some lenticular shapes protruding.
![The morning sun briefly flashes off Mt. Meeker and Long's Peak before rising above the clouds to the east [behind us in this view], smothering everything in shadow.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5005dbf284aebe9f4d09d4f5/1385307367723-8O1C6LNAALT149I1ULG6/1347-_C9A-7670.jpg)
The morning sun briefly flashes off Mt. Meeker and Long's Peak before rising above the clouds to the east [behind us in this view], smothering everything in shadow.
And a shot of the full moon descending towards the western horizon:
Purple alpenglow suffuses the horizon as the full moon sets just at sunrise.
Sunset from Button Rock
Sunset over the Continental Divide from Button Rock - Mt. Meeker and Long's Peak standing on the horizon just left of center.
High country summer - Part IV
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.