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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

Thanks to the plague, I haven't taken any trips this year so far. Instead, I've been beating the crap out of myself hiking in the local mountains with long hikes to some places I've been before, and some challenging places I hadn't yet.

All of the following were originally taken in my Olympus EM1 Mk2's hi-res mode that gives 80mp raw files.

Rawah wilderness. Pano shot, the full size version is something like 31000 x 10000 pixels. Someday gonna get this printed huge to go on the wall. I had taken a pano shot from this location last year in worse lighting (thin, wispy clouds) and wanted to go back when it was nicer. Sat at this location for a good half hour taking shots.
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Northern of the Twin Crater Lakes. A scramble down from where the previous shot was taken.
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Rowe glacier. Roughest hike I've done so far as far as the numbers go (mileage/elevation gain.)
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These guys were hanging out on the approach to Rowe glacier. First time I've seen these truly in the wild and not right by the road causing traffic jams as people stop to take pictures.
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Sprague glacier. Some nasty terrain on the approach to this one (up Spruce canyon) and some sketchy terrain on the exit (going up and out from Sprague pass.)
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Frozen lake.
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Black lake from above, looking at Longs Peak, the keyboard of the winds and the spearhead. Would like to go back to this spot again in better light/conditions. The Cameron Peak fire has it a bit hazy.
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The strange thing that I found this year is that after each of these hikes, I couldn't sleep. Would get home around 10pm, in bed by 11pm, and then I'd be exhausted but totally awake until around 5am. Has not happened in previous years. Some kind of weird endorphin overload? Endorphins not getting processed due to getting older? Beats me.

Sep 16, 2020 at 10:13 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

Beautiful place ! Thanks for sharing.

Sep 16, 2020 at 10:29 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

Lovely set of photos. I particularly liked the pano and the Bighorn Sheep.

Sep 16, 2020 at 12:39 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

Very natural and realistic images

Sep 16, 2020 at 12:54 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

I really like the view of Black Lake from above. Too bad about the smoke. It's certainly worth a return. Was that a dayhike or overnight?

Sep 16, 2020 at 12:55 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

wlpelzmann wrote:
I really like the view of Black Lake from above. Too bad about the smoke. It's certainly worth a return. Was that a dayhike or overnight?

Thanks! That was a long day hike. All of these were from long day hikes rather than overnights. (Some were from the same trip, like the pano and the Twin Crater Lakes shot, and Black/Frozen lakes.)

Sep 17, 2020 at 08:35 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

That's some epic scenery and some epic hiking! I am guessing you are right on the inability to sleep after such exertion. Not sure what the elevation gains were on these, but distance and a lot of gain certainly leads to oxygen depravation and I am sure it took your body some time to recover. I tend to load up on Magnesium and Calcium before and after these trips (along with tons of water before, during and after) and it seems to help a bit with the muscle exhaustion and sleep.

Bob

Sep 17, 2020 at 10:43 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

Hathaway wrote:
That's some epic scenery and some epic hiking! I am guessing you are right on the inability to sleep after such exertion. Not sure what the elevation gains were on these, but distance and a lot of gain certainly leads to oxygen depravation and I am sure it took your body some time to recover. I tend to load up on Magnesium and Calcium before and after these trips (along with tons of water before, during and after) and it seems to help a bit with the muscle exhaustion and sleep.

Bob

I've been good on hitting the water before/during/after, but I haven't tried magnesium or calcium before as a means of dealing with it. Thanks for the suggestion! I've got a potentially long hike tomorrow and I'll try and see how that works out. (I say potentially because there's a few turnaround points and bonus objectives I can do and it's going to depend on how I feel.)

The elevation gain and distance on those pictured was anywhere from 3500-4400ft gain and 14-18 miles. The highest one was Rowe glacier at 13200ft. (Well a tad higher, I skirted around the scree around Rowe mountain and descended to the lake.)

Sep 18, 2020 at 08:46 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

nice lookin set Patrick

Sep 21, 2020 at 02:25 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

Great Pictures... Especially like the last one of the alpine lake, brings it all into scale. They're all beauties!!

Sep 26, 2020 at 10:02 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

chris02324 wrote:
Great Pictures... Especially like the last one of the alpine lake, brings it all into scale. They're all beauties!!

Thanks, glad you like them! Alpine, glacially carved lakes is my jam for mountain hikes. It's too bad the Cameron Peak fire is still growing right now. My last hike was much hazier.

Sep 28, 2020 at 04:39 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

those last two are great. There is some movement I'm attracted to in the final image

Sep 28, 2020 at 09:07 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Northern Colorado Mountains (RMNP, Rawahs)

The Rat wrote:
Thanks, glad you like them! Alpine, glacially carved lakes is my jam for mountain hikes. It's too bad the Cameron Peak fire is still growing right now. My last hike was much hazier.

That's a great jam man... I had the pleasure of taking in some of that scene earlier this summer up in the northern cascades.. simply beautiful.

Sep 29, 2020 at 09:25 AM


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