Did a long hike last weekend in Rocky Mountain national park's Wild Basin area with my brother. Total ended up around 17 miles, nearly 4k ft elevation gain, and about 4-5 miles of that was fully off trail and route finding. Was boots on trail at 0606, didn't get back to the car until 2009. Was pretty beat afterwards! Didn't get to spend as much time fully refining my compositions due to the distance needed, but was still reasonably happy with the results.
From there, a rough social trail goes to Box lake. Actually saw a bear and a cub on the way here. First time seeing a bear in the wild! Only have a bad cell phone shot of it though, not worth posting here. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54681720377_fa80cc519d_b.jpg
The rough plan was to decide on our route back from here depending on the sky. The forecast held a slight chance of rain and thunder, and while I don't mind getting rained on, I didn't want to be a crispy critter up on the tundra. Thankfully even though the sky was cloudy, there wasn't a hint of rain or thunder at the time. We pushed on south, over the pass to Isolation lake. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54682545286_f253cd29ab_b.jpg
Last stop of the day was Bluebird lake, at which point the clouds were rolling back in with some drizzle, and some thunder was rumbling to the south. We were below treeline at this point, so I didn't feel like there was a risk. Still didn't linger, because the clouds were only getting heavier and the light wasn't going to improve on the lake. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54682777279_c2bf5ee480_b.jpg
Jim Dockery wrote:
Great results for a long fast day at altitude. What camera/lens were you using?
These were with an Olympus EM1 Mk2 with the 7-14 Pro lens. All but one were done via the tripod based hi-res mode. (One of the flower shots had the flower moving from the wind just a bit too much.)
Thanks for the tour.... very nice set.