The collegiate peaks in Colorado
Left to Right: Lost Mountain, Mount Shavano, Jones Peak, Mount White, Mount Princeton, and Mount Columbia.
It is cold and there are cacti everywhere and I just want one good rock.
Rock update: the hill next to my camp has several old prospecting sites. It seems to be a dormant volcano as there are deposits of what I think is kimberlite (crumbly dark rock with lots of crystalline inclusions, remnants of lava tubes mined for diamonds). I got a good little piece of that.
One of my favorite parts of the magnificent state I call home.
Good hunting!
It’s my first time on the western slope outside of Buena Vista, this campground being somewhere in Chaffee County. Really shocking how much greener the Montrose/Telluride area is than the Front Range. I immediately started looking at housing options the moment I saw Gunnison.
Grew up in SW CO. Four Corners!
The San Juans and Río de las Ánimas Perdidas hold a special place in my heart.
The San Juans are remarkable. RMNP was so surreal that it made me move to Colorado to be within an hour’s drive of it, but the mountains around Telluride put it to shame.
It’s really hard to capture their scale, isn’t it? This pic makes them look like hills to me because it reminds me of the hills near my own home, but if I look closely I realize how massive they are.
I hate that about photographing mountains. I’m at around 10.3k’ elevation, the second mountains from the left and right are 14.2k’. In person they still tower over me with a sense of gravitas that photos never capture.
Yeah I just did the math and these mountains are 1/6th the area of my whole country so the picture doesn’t quite do them justice.
