Joel's Pictures

Rocky Mountain National Park, June 2012

Bear Bottom Cabin - Sun 24 Jun 2012 04:44:44 PM

Bear Bottom Cabin - Sun 24 Jun 2012 04:45:33 PM

Bear Bottom Cabin - Sun 24 Jun 2012 04:46:30 PM

Bear Bottom Cabin, with the Stanley Hotel (from the movie The Shining) in the background - Sun 24 Jun 2012 04:47:56 PM

Bear Bottom Cabin and the distant Stanley Hotel at sunrise - Sat 30 Jun 2012 05:34:20 AM

Michele and Joel enjoying some wine on the cabin's patio - Tue 26 Jun 2012 04:30:20 PM

Michele, with Long's Peak in the background - Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:05:22 PM

Old Fall River Road, a one-way dirt road to the Alpine Visitor Center - Mon 25 Jun 2012 10:41:26 AM

Old Fall River Road is open only in the summer - Mon 25 Jun 2012 10:43:29 AM

Very dusty! - Mon 25 Jun 2012 10:45:46 AM

Joel, at maximum concentration - Mon 25 Jun 2012 10:47:05 AM

Who needs guardrails? - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:06:11 AM

The Alpine Visitor Center at the top of the road - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:13:11 AM

From the Alpine Visitor Center deck - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:32:05 AM

From the Alpine Visitor Center deck - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:33:47 AM

The visitor center was quite crowded - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:52:27 AM

Trails leading from the visitor center - Mon 25 Jun 2012 11:54:23 AM

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An adventurous biker - Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:00:30 PM

At a lower elevation, Milner Pass - Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:45:35 PM

Michele at Milner Pass - Mon 25 Jun 2012 12:56:33 PM

Milner Pass - Mon 25 Jun 2012 01:02:48 PM

Milner Pass - Mon 25 Jun 2012 01:05:46 PM

Lava Cliffs - Mon 25 Jun 2012 01:34:46 PM

We stopped for a hike on the Ute Trail, at about 12,000 feet - Mon 25 Jun 2012 02:17:32 PM

This grass and small flowers are all that can grow at this elevation - Mon 25 Jun 2012 02:18:27 PM

Another hiker, deep in thought - Mon 25 Jun 2012 02:20:07 PM

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It doesn't take much hiking at this elevation to wear you out - Mon 25 Jun 2012 02:51:38 PM

We got up early to see the sunrise at Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 05:37:56 AM

Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 05:45:53 AM

Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 05:52:16 AM

Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 05:53:39 AM

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A twisted pine at Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 06:01:30 AM

Beetles are a big problem in the forest - Tue 26 Jun 2012 06:04:02 AM

Tripod and gear from the sunrise photos - Tue 26 Jun 2012 06:06:01 AM

A creek near Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 06:17:02 AM

Another creek near Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 06:26:40 AM

Bear Lake, a larger lake near Dream Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 06:59:52 AM

Our first encounter with a panhandling squirrel - Tue 26 Jun 2012 07:25:16 AM

Sprague Lake, which was very windy! - Tue 26 Jun 2012 07:38:55 AM

Sprague Lake - Tue 26 Jun 2012 07:40:24 AM

St. Malo Church, near the park - Wed 27 Jun 2012 10:39:30 AM

St. Malo Church - Wed 27 Jun 2012 10:41:13 AM

Michele and Joel at Copeland Falls - Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:23:44 AM

Copeland Falls - Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:25:38 AM

A painter paining Calypso Cascades - Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:30:49 AM

Calypso Cascades - Wed 27 Jun 2012 11:34:39 AM

A lunchtime encounter with another squirrel - Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:26:32 PM

Calypso Cascades - Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:45:43 PM

On the way to Ouzel Falls, about a 2.5 mile hike each way - Wed 27 Jun 2012 12:50:23 PM

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The bare spot on the mountain is damage from mountain pine beetles - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:11:40 PM

The trail went through some aspen trees - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:12:17 PM

Michele enjoys climbing around on rocks - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:16:25 PM

Ouzel Falls - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:36:35 PM

Ouzel Falls - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:40:57 PM

Ouzel Falls - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:52:57 PM

Ouzel Falls - Wed 27 Jun 2012 01:43:03 PM

The trail had places to park your horse! - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:03:29 PM

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A colorful moth - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:25:31 PM

IMG_4887 - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:26:14 PM

I never did see any llamas - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:52:41 PM

This squirrel has obviously just eaten! - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:57:12 PM

Thehorses passed by us on the trail - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:57:22 PM

Thehorses passed by us on the trail - Wed 27 Jun 2012 02:57:27 PM

St. Vrain Creek - Wed 27 Jun 2012 03:16:49 PM

Many Parks Curve, on Trail Ridge Road - Thu 28 Jun 2012 05:43:06 AM

Rainbow Curve - Thu 28 Jun 2012 06:01:49 AM

Rainbow Curve - Thu 28 Jun 2012 06:03:57 AM

Rainbow Curve (and dust spots on my lens!) - Thu 28 Jun 2012 06:05:26 AM

A pika at Rock Cut - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:40:21 AM

Another tiny pika - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:40:47 AM

Marmot at Rock Cut - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:42:13 AM

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This marmot climbed down by the road - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:44:41 AM

Michele says this is the marmot's profile picture on match.com - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:45:40 AM

Pika - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:51:53 AM

We've been spotted! - Fri 29 Jun 2012 08:57:34 AM

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The next part of Trail Ridge Road to climb - Fri 29 Jun 2012 09:02:08 AM

The landscape at Rock Cut - Fri 29 Jun 2012 09:10:38 AM

The landscape at Rock Cut - Fri 29 Jun 2012 09:11:45 AM

We made it all the way to the west side of the park, at the Grand Lake entrance - Fri 29 Jun 2012 10:36:51 AM

The mighty Colorado River, close to where it begins - Fri 29 Jun 2012 11:17:08 AM

Fairview Curve - Fri 29 Jun 2012 12:22:35 PM

Looking out over Horseshoe Park (the river makes horseshoe shapes) - Fri 29 Jun 2012 01:26:01 PM

Burn piles of dead wood, to be burned in the winter - Fri 29 Jun 2012 01:26:32 PM

We spent a week in Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park.

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