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Colorado National Monument.

Mike Goad — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:50:00 +0000

Over the years, we’d been through Grand Junction at least 4 times, but had never stopped there or visited any of the local attractions. After this trip, Colorado National Monument will certainly be a place we would like to visit again.

Colorado National Monument, established May 24, 1911, is located just to the west of Grand Junction. Part of the larger Colorado Plateau, the monument features canyons that cut deep into sandstone and even granite formation. It is high desert country, with elevation in the park ranging from 4000 feet to nearly 7000 feet above sea level. Summer temperatures are usually very hot, while nighttime winter temperatures can be extremely cold. Precipitation is limited, with an annual average of just over 10 inches..

The monument has a lot of hiking trails, with varying length and difficulty – we took two moderately long hikes during our visit, managing to wander off of the Devil’s Kitchen trail into and unmarked area. We also took the Monument Canyon Trail from the upper trailhead to the Coke Ovens overlook and back. The lower portion of the train from the lower trailhead to Independence Monument and back is highly recommended for visitors looking to do only one hike. It’s a 2.5 mile hike that follows the base of sandstone cliffs, offering views of towering rock formations and, in the fall, it’s the best trail to see desert bighorn sheep.

Photos from Colorado National Monument have been published on the Exit78 facebook page in the “Colorado National Monument” album.

Selected Information Resources:

Karen’s Post – Colorado National Monument

Elk Viewing Season in Moraine Park.

Mike Goad — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

We visited Rocky Mountain National Park in September, largely because it’s the prime period for viewing North American elk (wapiti) in the park.

In late summer and early autumn, elk descend from the high country to mountain valley meadows for the annual mating season. Bull elk compete with each other for the right to breed with a herd of females. Although the competition is high, it’s mostly posturing for the females as actual fighting results in injury and depletes energy.

One of the best – and most popular – areas for viewing the elk is Moraine Park. The word “park” used in place names in the Colorado Rockies often refers to a valley or meadow. In this instance, Moraine Park is a long, glacier formed valley, with broad meadows at the lower end.

A moraine is a accumulation of boulders, stones and other debris deposited by a glacier. Aptly named Moraine Park is bounded by moraines on three sides. On the north and south, the valley is enclosed by lateral moraines, formed when the glacier deposited debris along its side. Debris at the east end of the valley formed a terminal moraine against a small mountain.

A two lane paved road to the Fern Lake trailhead runs along the south side of the Moraine Park meadow. In the cool evenings of the elk mating season, portions of the road are often jammed with cars and pedestrians watching the elk – what we like to call a “critter jam.”

While we were down along Fern Lake Road several evenings to view the elk, we didn’t take our car. We could have taken the hiker shuttle bus, but didn’t do that either. Instead, we walked.

Moraine Park campground is situated on the northern lateral moraine and there is a trail that goes down the hill to the meadow. When we visited in 2009, our campsite was right next to the trail, but, this year, that site was, unfortunately, reserved, so we had to settle for a site a little further away.

Blog posts from this visit to
Rocky Mountain National Park:

Selected Information Resources:

Rocky Mountain National Park

National Park Service– Rocky Mountain National Park
- Suggested Hikes
- Conditions and Closures
Wikitravel
Wikipedia

Estes Park

Grand Lake

Trail to Nymph and Dream Lakes

Mike Goad — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

This was our second time on this trail segment, which runs from the Bear Lake parking area to Emerald Lake and connects with other Bear Lake area trails. We had hoped to make it to Emerald Lake if our legs, and the weather, held out. The weather had been iffy overnight and during the morning. Trail Ridge Road had been closed closed the night before and remained closed due to snow for the first time in the season. With rain threatening, instead of a hike that morning, we went into Estes Park. After lunch and walking around Estes Park town center a bit more, we headed back into the park to the Bear Lake area trailhead.

The trail we chose goes to a trio of subalpine lakes – Nymph, Dream, and Emerald – in upper Tyndall Gorge. The trail is well maintained and rises steadily over most of it’s 1.8 mile length. Difficulty is easy to moderate, but can be more difficult for those not acclimatized to the altitude as it climbs to over 10,000 feet. We had already been in Colorado a week, so the altitude was less of an issue than it might have been otherwise.

From the Bear Lake area trails parking lot (9,475 ft.), the trail climbs steady for 1/2 mile, then levels off at about 9, 700 feet at the south end of small, lily pad covered Nymph Lake. The trail begins climbing again in the forest on the north end of Nymph Lake and levels off again at Dream Lake, 1.1 miles from the trail head and at an elevation of 9,912′ ft. Dream Lake is .35 miles long. The trail passes along its west shore.

We had hoped to make it all the way to Emerald Lake, 1.8 miles from the trailhead and 10,090 feet above sea level, but we turned back at the north end of Dream Lake due to deteriorating weather conditions. Weather in the high country can be unpredictable, even in the middle of summer, but this was the middle of September and we’d already had some rain on our hike. We had rain gear with us. However, it was already 3:30 PM and light rain was falling again, so we decided against pushing on ahead.

Blog posts from this visit to
Rocky Mountain National Park:

Bear Lake
Fall River Country
Trail Ridge High Country
Estes Park, Colorado
Trail to Nymph and Dream Lake (this post)
Moraine Country (coming soon)

Selected Information
Resources:

Rocky Mountain National Park

National Park Service– Rocky Mountain National Park
- Suggested Hikes
- Conditions and Closures
Wikitravel
Wikipedia

Estes Park

Grand Lake

Estes Park

Mike Goad — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

On our four previous visits to Rocky Mountain National Park, we stayed one or more nights in the adjacent town of Estes Park. This time, we didn’t, as we were able to get reservations at Moraine Park Campground in the park for the duration of our planned visit. As a result, we actually spent less time in Estes Park than any other visit – other than traveling through town and stops for fuel and groceries, just a short visit before and after lunch on September 15th, followed by an afternoon alpine hike back in the park. It was an nice stroll along the street and into some of the shops – and much less crowded than our last visit on Labor Day weekend, 2009.

This image is from a photo Karen snapped of me
while I was taking a picture of the Wishful Thinkin’
sculpture of the cowboy pouring water out of
his boot.

Estes Park, a town of just under 6,000 permanent residents, is a popular summer resort in the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies, though there are plenty of recreational opportunities during the rest of the year. Located at 7,522 feet above sea level, the town is at the east entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park. Tourism has been a primary business for the town for most of its history. Lodging includes The Stanley Hotel, inspiration for the setting of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. (We stayed in the hotel during our 2001 visit.)

The word “park” used in place names in the Colorado Rockies often refers to a valley or meadow. Estes Park, then, originally referred to the valley and was named after town founder Joel Estes.

The town experienced severe damage in July 1982 from flooding resulting from the failure of Lawn Lake Dam.

Additional information on the Lawn Lake Dam Failure, July 15, 1982:

KOA TV Channel 4 – YouTube, 1982 footage
Wikipedia
Town of Estes Park

Blog posts from this visit to
Rocky Mountain National Park:

Bear Lake
Fall River Country
Trail Ridge High Country
Estes Park, Colorado (this post)
Trail to Nymph and Dream Lake (coming
soon)
Moraine Country (coming soon)

Selected Information
Resources:

Rocky Mountain National Park

National Park Service– Rocky Mountain National Park
- Suggested Hikes
- Conditions and Closures
Wikitravel
Wikipedia

Estes Park

Grand Lake

Trail Ridge High Country

Mike Goad — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Rocky Mountain National Park’s Trail Ridge Road (Wikipedia) crosses the park from Estes Park on the east to Grand Lake on the west. It is a segment of U.S. Highway 34 and is the highest continuous highway in the United States. Crossing the Continental Divide at Milner Pass ((elev. 10,758 ft/3,279 m), it reaches its highest point at 12,183 ft (3,713 m), near Fall River Pass.

On this visit, the day we crossed on Trail Ridge Road to Grand Lake and back started out cool, with precipitation predicted. We ran into a little rain and quite a bit of fog, some of which rolled in when we were on the Tundra Communities Trail, which climbs a couple hundred feet, starting at about 12, 100 ft. elevation.

On the way back to the campground, we stopped at the gift shop next to Alpine Visitor Center – at Fall Creek Pass – at a little after 3 PM to take a break from the fog and get a cup of coffee. However, the gift shop was closed, as was the visitor center. The temperature had dropped from the mid 50s when we were there earlier in the day to 35°F.

About three hours after we made it back to the camper, the park service closed the road.

Blog posts from this visit to
Rocky Mountain National Park:

Bear Lake
Fall River Country
Trail Ridge High Country (this post)
Estes Park, Colorado (coming soon)
Trail to Nymph and Dream Lake (coming
soon)
Moraine Country (coming soon)

Selected Information
Resources:

Rocky Mountain National Park

National Park Service– Rocky Mountain National Park
- Suggested Hikes
- Conditions and Closures
Wikitravel
Wikipedia

Estes Park

Grand Lake

Fall River Country

Mike Goad — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Each time we visit Rocky Mountain National Park, we travel the Old Fall River Road from it’s junction with the modern Fall River Road, U.S. Highway 34. The road is two-way and paved for the first 1.75 miles, passing Lawn Lake Trailhead, Lawn Lake Alluvial Fan, and the Endovalley Picnic Area. The remaining 9.4 miles is winding, narrow, unpaved and one-way from the picnic area to above treeline at Fall River Pass, following the steep slope of Mount Chapin’s south face to it’s junction with Trail Ridge Road.

Old Fall River Road was built between 1913 and 1920.

The Lawn Lake Alluvial Fan is a particularly interesting recent geologic feature. It was created when flood water and debris rushing down the steep and narrow Roaring River valley from a failed dam at Lawn Lake slowed down when it reached the broader Fall River valley, leaving behind an alluvial fan of debris. When we first saw it over 20 years ago, the large Roaring River gully scoured by the flow and the alluvial fan were still a fairly fresh scar on the land, with little new vegetation. In the ensuing years, the scar has weathered some and vegetation has moved in.

Additional information on the Lawn Lake Dam Failure, July 15, 1982

Aerial view of Estes Park, July 15, 1982 (USGS)

KOA TV Channel 4 – YouTube, 1982 footage
Wikipedia
Town of Estes Park

Lawn Lake alluvial fan from Trail Ridge Road

Blog posts from this visit to
Rocky Mountain National Park:

Bear Lake
Fall River Country (this post)
Trail Ridge High Country (coming soon)
Estes Park, Colorado (coming soon)
Trail to Nymph and Dream Lake (coming
soon)
Moraine Country (coming soon)

Selected Information
Resources:

Rocky Mountain National Park

National Park Service– Rocky Mountain National Park
- Suggested Hikes
- Conditions and Closures
Wikitravel
Wikipedia

Estes Park

Grand Lake

Bear Lake

Mike Goad — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

The Bear Lake area of Rocky Mountain National Park is one of the most popular parts of the park. We’ve hiked several trails in the area, including the 0.6 mile trail around Bear Lake.

The Bear Lake Trail is an easy walk, listed as accessible – available to most people, including those with handicaps. However, the trail is not entirely flat and is more challenging than most accessible trails. The lake is about 9500 feet above sea level.

Bear Lake is at the end of Bear Lake Road, eleven miles from the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. With several other trails in the Bear Lake area, the parking lot fills early during the summer and weekends. Bear Lake Route shuttle buses run from a large Park & Ride parking area across from Glacier Basin Campground, with stops at other trailheads along the route.

Blog posts from this visit to
Rocky Mountain National Park:

Bear Lake (this post)
Fall River Country (coming soon)
Trail Ridge High Country (coming soon)
Estes Park, Colorado (coming soon)
Trail to Nymph and Dream Lake (coming
soon)
Moraine Country (coming soon)

Selected Information
Resources:

Rocky Mountain National Park

National Park Service– Rocky Mountain National Park
- Suggested Hikes
- Conditions and Closures
Wikitravel
Wikipedia

Estes Park

Grand Lake

Flight

Mike Goad — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000

Newport State Park, Door County, Wisconsin, September 17, 2008

Newport, northeast of Ellison Bay, is Wisconsin’s only formally designated wilderness park. With 2,373 acres and 11 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline it offers quiet alternatives to bustling Door County. – Park website

Newport State Park – related sites:

Related post:

Photographic Serendipity

A Sunny Autumn Teton Day

Mike Goad — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000

September 20, 2007

Even though we had been to Grand Teton National Park many times before, on this trip we explored some areas we had not been to before in the southeastern part of the park and just outside, in the Gros Ventre and Antelope Flats areas. They which yielded quite few opportunities for photographs from viewpoints different from what I had taken in the past including old log structures and the Mormon Row settlement.

Other photos include a large plane landing at Jackson against Grand Teton as a backdrop, Jackson lake, Signal Mountain, Chapel of the Transfiguration, moose resting along the Snake River near the Moose entrance to the park; Menor’s Ferry, Bill Menor’s cabin and store, and aspen fall colors.

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References and Resources:

Grand Teton National Park, September 19, 2007

Mike Goad — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:58:00 +0000

Separated from Yellowstone National Park by only 10 miles, Grand Teton National Park is another of our favorites that we have visited many times. Though we have camped in the park on some previous visits, this time we stayed at a campground on the Snake River south of Jackson, Wyoming.

The park is named for Grand Teton, the tallest peak, 13,775 feet (4,199 m), in the Teton Range, which rises abruptly above the valley of Jackson Hole.

Jackson Hole is believed to be named after a mountain man, David (Davey) Edward Jackson, a mountain man who trapped the area for beaver in the early 1800s. The name “hole” is a term used by early trappers who entered from the north and east, descending along relatively steep slopes, giving the feeling of descending into a hole.

The town of Jackson, Wyoming, the only incorporated town in the valley, is often mistakenly referred to as Jackson Hole.

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References and Resources:

LeHardy Rapids to Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Mike Goad — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000

September 2007

In all the visit’s we’ve made over the years to Yellowstone National Park, we’ve always seen plenty of wildlife. Though we’ve seen large mammals in all parts of the park, by far, we’ve seen the most along the eastern section of the Grand Loop Road.

Large numbers of buffalo can be seen from – and, often, on – the road in Hayden Valley, though we’ve seen them all along the route from Yellowstone Lake to where the road starts to climb towards Dunraven Pass. Bears and wolves can sometimes be seen in the same area, though we’ve yet to see a wolf and it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a bear there. We have seen quite a few of the wolves’ younger cousins, the coyotes. From Dunraven Pass past Tower Falls, we’ve seen bighorn sheep a number of times.

There is a bit of thermal activity along this route. The lower potion lies within the bounds of the caldera of the Yellowstone super-volcano.

The lower part of the route follows the Yellowstone River, parting from it at Canyon Village and then returning to it near Tower Falls. At Canyon, the river tumbles over two falls, the Lower Falls the more spectacular of the two, as it thunders into the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.

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Yellowstone References and Resources:

Yellowstone is one of the most popular destinations in the U.S. and there are a lot of available resources, including books and DVDs as well as internet resources. I’ve included links to a few reliable resources below and have more on my Yellowstone page at Haw Creek.

From Gardiner, Montana, to Dunraven Pass in Yellowstone

Mike Goad — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:00:00 +0000

September 2007

The northeast part of the park has few of the thermal features so prevalent in the rest of the park. This section is more mountainous than some of the other parts of the brush, with striking vistas of a wilderness of high peaks and deep valleys. Vegetation ranges from grasses and sagebrush to aspens and pines. All of the wildlife found in other parts of the park may also be seen here.

Our route for this video is shown in darker red on the map. The dotted line represents a one-way dirt road – well maintained, and a favorite of ours – that crosses the Blacktail Deer Plateau.

With each visit we generally make the whole Grand Loop Road. Doing the whole loop all at once makes for a long day – and it truly is impossible to see everything in a single day.

If you’re a camper, my recommendation would be to stay at either Madison Campground or Canyon Village Campground. These are in the middle part of the long sides of the Grand Loop Road. This will eliminate a lot of repetitive travel over the same areas. In 2011, we stayed at Fishing Bridge for a week. It was plenty of time to see everything. However, we spent a lot of time just in transit, much of it in the Hayden Valley or nearby, caught up in excruciatingly slow traffic, generally caused by buffalo – or people slowing down or stopping to see the buffalo.

If you want to stay in the park, whether you are camping or staying a lodge, make reservations very early. The reason we ended up at Fishing Bridge instead of one of our preferred campgrounds was that we didn’t plan far enough in advance. Six months in advance may not bee soon enough.

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Yellowstone References and Resources:

Old Faithful Vicinity

Mike Goad — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

September 2007

We probably visited the Old Faithful part of the park more often this trip than any place else. We saw Old Faithful erupt at least four times that I can think of. We also made dinner reservations for one evening. Another day we hiked up to an overlook where you can view the eruption. Unfortunately the eruption occurred before we got all the way to the overlook, but we were able to get a good view of it.

Old Faithful is, without a doubt, the most popular location in the park.

The Old Faithful Inn is a fascinating hotel over a hundred years old. We stayed there one time back in the late 70s in the fall.

Reservations for lodging and camping – for those campgrounds where reservations can be made – should be made as far as possible in advance. In 2011, we waited too long to decide on our travel plans and campsites were not available in the campgrounds we preferred. We had to settle for something else.

Yellowstone References and Resources:

Madison Junction to Old Faithful.

Mike Goad — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Since we were camped near West Yellowstone, we traversed this part of the park several times. There are a lot of thermal features here, but we didn’t make it to all of them.

Some of the more popular destinations in the park get very crowded as the day goes by, even in September when the season is starting to wind down. One secret to getting in at those places without having to fight traffic and/or search for a parking spot is to get there early. It seems as though a lot a folks are late risers when on vacation – or they are just taking their time.

In Yellowstone, like many other places, early morning is a good time for photos, especially on chilly mornings in areas that abound in thermal features.

Yellowstone References and Resources:

Lewistown, Chokecherries and “What the Hay!”

Mike Goad — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

September 2007

Music: “When it Rains” by Anna Coogan and North19
track added using YouTube AudioSwap

While in Montana in September 2007, we had plans to stop in Lewistown to get set up with a satellite internet system. The installer, Ron, had an extra RV spot at his home for friends, complete with hookups and invited us to stay there for a few days. The satellite system was a new model and there were a few wrinkles in getting it set up right.

Ron was a member of an on-line RV forum I participated in. Retired, Ron did satellite system installs for other forum members at one price no matter how long it took.

While there, we shared supper with Ron and his wife several times in their house and once at the Black Bull Saloon and Steakhouse in Hobson. We also took in the 2007 Lewistown Chokecherry Festival and the What the Hay “hay art” contest that stretched over 21 miles in Judith Basin County between the towns of Hobson and Windham. As, well they took us on a couple of other drives out into the Montana countryside.

“What the Hay” is now also called the “Montana Bale Trail.”

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Lewistown, Chokecherry Festival, and Montana Bale Trail information:

Great Falls, Montana

Mike Goad — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000

September 1st and 2nd, 2007

The music is “Back to Back” by Whitey Morgan and the 78’s, YouTube audioswap.

While we had been here before, in 2001, we had just been passing through on our way to Glacier National Park and had made reservations at a hotel in Great Falls for one night.

In 2007, though, Great Falls was a destination for a family visit. A brother, his wife and two sons were living there.

While visiting with family, we also saw some of what is left of the falls, went to a farmers’ market, saw an autocross competition, visited Giant Spring State Park, spent a little time at a horse auction and stopped at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center.

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References for Great Falls:

Badlands…

Mike Goad — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:06:00 +0000

In the late 80s, on our way home from a western vacation, we stopped for one night in Badlands National Park. The stop included a nighttime ranger guided walk.

Our 2007 trip was a daytime visit as we were camping in the Black Hills. It started out as a chilly blustery day, but, fortunately the weather improved as the day went on.

The badlands is a fascinating landscape of “sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States¹.”

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Badlands National Park references:

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¹Wikipedia

Music is YouTube audio swap: “Honor Among Warriors” by Luke Richards

Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and more….

Mike Goad — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Whenever we go on a trip, I take a lot of pictures. Before I share any of the pictures, I post-process them – sort of like putting them through a digital darkroom – to remove flaws and adjust the saturation and contrast. It takes time, but I have been able to streamline my process somewhat.

I have just completed processing the last groups of images from the first big western trip we took after I retired in 2007. I’ve started creating videos using photos from that trip, with background music from YouTube audio swap. The first two of the series have been already posted:

Nebraska – A Ranch in the Sandhills
Have you ever seen a wild ass? – feral burros and more in South Dakota’s Custer State Park

Since I’ve finished with all the groups of images from the trip, the video for today is a montage of photographs from the trip; for the most part, one picture each day of our travels and explorations.

The audio track is Paul Mottram’s “Sidewalk Saunter.”

Have you ever seen a wild ass?

Mike Goad — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:45:00 +0000

Begging Burros is a name used to refer to feral burros (asses) in Custer State Park, South Dakota. The burros are descendants of a herd that were used to carry visitors to the top of Harney Peak. When the rides were discontinued years ago, the burros were released into the park. Elk, mule deer, white tailed deer, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, and mountain lions also inhabit the park.

ass: (noun) 1. A hoofed mammal of the horse family with a braying call, typically smaller than a horse and with longer ears

burro: (noun) 1. The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus, is a domesticated member of the Equidae or horse family. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African Wild Ass, E. africanus. In the western United States, a small donkey is sometimes called a ”burro” (from the Spanish word for the animal).

Custer State Park

Black Hills

Black Hills, Badlands, and Lakes – Black Hills Badlands & Lake Association
Wikipedia

26 of my photos at once!!!

Mike Goad — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:00:00 +0000

If I were to post a photo a day – or even 5 a day – it would take quite a while just to share those that I have selected for posting.

By putting together a video, I can share a large number at once – and create a video library that we can view on a TV screen. The original of the video below is higher definition than what I uploaded to YouTube.

The photos, in the sequence that they appear:

Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, September 2009
Menor’s cabin and store, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, September 20, 2007
Canton Lake, Oklahoma, August 29, 2009
Canyonlands national Park, September 23, 2007
Pronghorn, Custer State Park, South Dakota, August 22, 2007
Wild burro, Custer State Park, South Dakota, August 22, 2007
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, March, 2011
Devil’s Tower National Monument, August 27, 2007
Devil’s Tower National Monument, August 28, 2007
Texas Interstate HighwayI40, eastbound rest west of Alenreed
Devil’s Tower National Monument, August, 2007
Cottonwood Tree, Lake Ogallala, Nebraska, July 8, 2010
Clouds, Lake Ogallala, Nebraska, July 8, 2010
Lewistown, Montana, August 30, 2007
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, September 14, 2009
Nuthatch
Ouray, Colorado, September 2010
Rest are at Marais des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge and Kansas Highway 52
Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, 2009
Rocky Mountain National park, somewhere trail to Nymph Lake, Dream Lake, & Emerald Lake, 2009
Pea Ridge National military Park, Northwest Arkansas, July 15, 2011
Abyss Pool, West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007
Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, September 24, 2007
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Visitor Center, Colorado, 2009
Garvan Woodland Gardens, Hot Springs, Arkansas, April 13, 2010
Entrance to Yellowstone National Park, Gardiner, Montana, September 13, 2007

The music, Improvisation On Friday… by Alex, is licensed under a Attribution (3.0).