Wilderness Photography

Looks like a great hiking spot Onedog. Everything is so green, well, except for the last couple. :) That huge broken rock is pretty cool.

Thanks Tod! I'm glad you like it.

This last weekend was my annual trip to the Fraser CO area and I spent an afternoon in RMNP, going in from the Grand Lake side. These are areas I've posted photos of before, so I hope you don't mind the duplication.

Heading off on a hike. Normally there's a lot more yellow by this time. The large amount of rain we've had earlier in the year has thrown of the cycle a bit.



Further up hill I started seeing some more of the color I love. I hope everyone has a chance to just sit and listen to the breeze going through Aspen. There's nothing quite like it.





I can see for miles and miles and miles and...



We don't get much color here other than green and yellow, so it's fun finding some red.



Wildflowers...







I went into Rocky Mountain National Park and drove up to the Alpine Visitor's Center at the top of Trail Ridge Road. Nice place to get a cup of coffee and head up the trail to the top of the world.



You know you get a lot of snow when you need 30' tall poles so you can find where you left the building.



After some huffing and puffing up the hill, I'm rewarded with this:





A look down at the Cafe and Visitor's Center:



Panorama from the Visitor's Center:



Headed back down to Adams Falls on the East Inlet Trail by Grand Lake. One of the great things about the trails in RMNP is how well they're maintained (which they have to be to handle the tons of people who visit).



The Falls:



I was hoping to find some wildlife, but they were all hiding this time.

Thanks for looking.
 
Absolutely stunning photos Nathan! Even though you always do a great job with your photos, I consider these among your best ever. The vibrant colors of the landscape that you captured in the clarity of these photos is breathtaking, especially compared to the drought-stricken brown vistas that we have in California this year.

Thanks for another great post. I'll be back many times to stare at these photos in awe.

Phil
 
A little over two years ago I went on a road trip across Iceland: from Keflavik to Höfn and back. Hundreds of amazing things to witness and just as many photos to take, but here are a few I'll share!

A view of the Vatnajökull Glacier melt.
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Got the walk the continental plate divide through Þingvellir. We dove into the Silfra later that day! Water so cool (35 degrees F) and clear visibility was down past 100 feet.
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On a glacier hike deep into the Mýrdalsjökull. It's next to Eyjafjallajökull that blew in 2010 causing air traffic in the Northern hemisphere to halt!
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I had the pleasure to go camping with some buddies out in Missouri a couple weeks ago. We camped a couple miles from the Missouri River and spent one of the days down at the river bank messing around in the woods. I headed out there on Thursday and came home on Sunday.

This was a great release for me (see my post in the community center if you haven't already and if you'd like to know what I mean).

The forecast was for pouring rain the whole trip. We even bought an extra large cabin tent to use as a community center if we got stuck inside the entire time. Fortunately the weather cooperated for the most part.

I only had my iPhone, which doubled as a camera and a GPS device, as I didn't want to lug around the big camera. I need to come up with a good mount for it on my pack straps or something so that it's at hand but not hanging from my neck the whole time while hiking around.

My home away from home (mine is the 2 person orange REI tent):



It was cloudy and misting quite a bit.



The trees were changing and it was nice to see some colors other than just the yellow aspens we have here in Colorado.



Heading down to the river to setup our spike camp for the day:



The grape vines where amazing:



Down by the river. Probably hard to tell in this small of a picture, but a lot of that lovely yellow and orange on the right side of the next picture is poison ivy. We got to contend with it the entire trip.



Looking across the Big Muddy:



We decide to return to camp via the "scenic route". Which is another way of saying, 5 miles of bushwhacking with machetes through sticker bushes, poison ivy, vines and the forest. Here's where it was easy, up on the levee:



Camp is a couple miles "that-a-way". You can't see it in the pic, but along the tree line is a wall of poison ivy. It was either whack through it and hope for the best or back track for quite a ways. One of the guys got tripped up on the vines and fell into a bush of it, and ended up with a reaction a few days later. The rest of us escaped.



The sumac was blazing:



I guess Missouri has some pretty sunsets too:



Thanks for looking.
 
Great pics Nathan. Really like the red head - Sumac. Good to hear that just one of y'all got tangled up with ole three leaf. Thanks for sharing.

Preston
 
Uncle_P said:
Great pics Nathan. Really like the red head - Sumac. Good to hear that just one of y'all got tangled up with ole three leaf. Thanks for sharing.

Preston
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Thanks Preston. I still feel like every little itch is poison ivy coming on. :)
 
Great photos of the glaciers crolfe1984, very majestic.

Nathan, looks like you had a great trip with some good friends. I'm long overdue for an overnight trip. Hopefully the Fiddies got some good uses there (although I hear you also need a Turley to enter MO ;) )
 
WOW Thurin. That one place you visited with the visitors center with elevation up around 12,000 ft was absolutely beautiful. I would love to live near an area like that to go visit and just take it all in. I live in GA where it is just flat and billions of trees every where. The greenery is nice but I would love to be near some mountains. Thanks for the pics.
 
What a great thread! All these amazing photos are making me want to get out there. Good thing I'll be going fly fishing all weekend. I'll post some of mine up later when I can upload to Fotki.
 
Great pics Nathan!!! Man, that looked like a good time. I am glad it didn't rain on you the whole time. I guess having some misty weather is better for practicing bush crafting skills anyway. We have poison oak out here. It is all over this area. I have never got it, but I still avoid it like the plague. I spend a lot of time trying to teach the kids how to identify it. Sometimes I do one day field trips for the local schools. After going over how to id it, I tell the kids, well, the good news is if you do get into some, it won't start itching today, so I won't have to be there when you start complaining.

It is great that you got to go with everything going on.

Thanks for sharing!

Tod
 
Man oh man those are some great pics guys. Thank you for sharing. I'll admit i got a little lump in my throat over the pic of someone standing at the edge of a glacial crevasse. :eek:
 
catalystman80 said:
Great photos of the glaciers crolfe1984, very majestic.

Nathan, looks like you had a great trip with some good friends. I'm long overdue for an overnight trip. Hopefully the Fiddies got some good uses there (although I hear you also need a Turley to enter MO ;) )
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It was a great trip. Much needed. I hope you can get out soon Josh.

cutchu said:
WOW Thurin. That one place you visited with the visitors center with elevation up around 12,000 ft was absolutely beautiful. I would love to live near an area like that to go visit and just take it all in. I live in GA where it is just flat and billions of trees every where. The greenery is nice but I would love to be near some mountains. Thanks for the pics.
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It's pretty neat up there. Not much air. And the tundra is a cool environment, different from anything else.

klags said:
What a great thread! All these amazing photos are making me want to get out there. Good thing I'll be going fly fishing all weekend. I'll post some of mine up later when I can upload to Fotki.
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Can't wait to see them klags!

hasco said:
Great pics Nathan!!! Man, that looked like a good time. I am glad it didn't rain on you the whole time. I guess having some misty weather is better for practicing bush crafting skills anyway. We have poison oak out here. It is all over this area. I have never got it, but I still avoid it like the plague. I spend a lot of time trying to teach the kids how to identify it. Sometimes I do one day field trips for the local schools. After going over how to id it, I tell the kids, well, the good news is if you do get into some, it won't start itching today, so I won't have to be there when you start complaining.

It is great that you got to go with everything going on.

Thanks for sharing!

Tod
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Thanks Tod. Our wood was wet so split wood fires were the norm. I guess the students will learn the lesson either the easy way or the hard way. :)

necrolicious said:
Man oh man those are some great pics guys. Thank you for sharing. I'll admit i got a little lump in my throat over the pic of someone standing at the edge of a glacial crevasse. :eek:
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Exactly. Scary stuff. No way I'd get out there.
 
A few pics of a beautiful place to hike just a few miles from my house.
Still some snow on the ground and a bit of mud.
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Tekton,
Finding mini-waterfalls on a hike is just icing on the cake. I bet the sound is serene.
I like the pic of your fellow hikers with the walking sticks.
Thanks for sharing.

Preston
 
Uncle_P said:
Tekton,
Finding mini-waterfalls on a hike is just icing on the cake. I bet the sound is serene.
I like the pic of your fellow hikers with the walking sticks.
Thanks for sharing.

Preston
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Thanks Preston. It's a beautiful place close by my house and without any cell phone reception.👍 Great place to unwind. The kids love it too.

Nathan
 
This has turned into such an epic thread. I love just coming here and slowly scrolling through the whole thing.
 
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