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Overnight at Gore Lake in the Eagles Nest Wilderness The Gore Range, Vail, Colorado For the second time this summer, I had actually set off to backpack into Booth Lake outside of Vail for the night, but when I got the the trailhead, there were 'No Overnight Parking' signs all over the parking lot. Not ...

Backpacking Crater Lake in the Gore Range The Gore Range, Vail, Colorado (*Not the Crater Lake in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness...) Backpacking Crater Lake in the Gore Range - A couple years ago, my buddy found a hike to the unofficially-named Crater Lake in the Gore Range at the base of the Spider (12,692') and ...

Hiking Tyndall Gorge - Sunset at Nymph, Dream, & Emerald Lakes Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado For years now, I had wanted to shoot Dream Lake so I was determined to get there for sunset last month. After how I had felt all and day after gimping my way out of Sky Pond that same ...

Hiking Sky Pond & Lake of Glass in Glacier Gorge Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado Hiking Sky Pond & Lake of Glass - The Glacier Gorge area of Rocky Mountain National Park is not only the most trafficked area of the park, but if I had to guess, it's one of the more trafficked areas ...

Driving Trail Ridge Road Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado "It is hard to describe what a sensation this new road is going to make," predicted Horace Albright, director of the National Park Service, in 1931 during the road's construction. "You will have the whole sweep of the Rockies before you in all directions." - NPS.gov ...

Backpacking Deluge Lake in Vail The Gore Range, Vail, Colorado I had never even heard of Deluge Lake until a few years ago when a buddy (Ninety Seventy) had posted up some sunset pictures from his hike... it looked pretty awesome. Grand Traverse Peak (13,041'), the ridge that provides the impressive and iconic backdrop to Vail, ...

Crater Lake & the Maroon Bells Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, Colorado My experience in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness in Colorado is unfortunately really limited and based pretty much around Maroon Lake and the Maroon Bells. I end up driving down to the Bells each fall, photographing the iconic sunrise scene with a couple hundred other people, ...

A Quick Overnight to Lost Lake Gore Range, Vail, Colorado A Quick Overnight to Lost Lake - Even though it's nestled up against the Gore Range and just over the ridge to the south of Piney Lake outside of Vail, the views at Lost Lake just aren't as grand or iconic. It's still a beautiful ...

Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve San Luis Valley, Colorado I had been to Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve twice in my years in Colorado, but I hadn't shot the park because both trips were during my pre-photography years. Not to mention one of those trips involved way too much tequila... Located ...