Mountain - Plains - Mountain Photo Thread

What do you have to share???

I'll start, Mt Sneffels, Ridgeway, CO in the summer of 1972
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/MtSneff.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t258/jesspalumbo_album/409025.jpg

Cool idea, Shifty. Here's another vantage point of Mt. Sneffels....taken in the fall of '07. I am a landscape photographer, ironically specializing in the mountain scenery of Colorado...so there's PLENTY more where this came from if anyone is interested. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/IMGP4212-1.jpg

ccd rider, that's beautiful, and if you have a link to an online gallery, would you post it please?

I have been known to walk around the mountains of CO with a camera. Wish I really were a landscape photographer by trade though.

Here are a few:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/1245121397_f84909ec3f.jpg
Never Summer Mountains from RMNP

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/386301828_df0814affa.jpg
Parika Lake

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/386937927_eb0755c18f.jpg
Lost Man Lake

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/387317141_4f25f2fecf.jpg
The Maroon Bells

Can't wait until backpacking season. Going over my photos reminds me to get off my bike and into the backcountry more often.

ccd rider, post those shots!!! :D

BTW, the afternoon sun on Sneffels is a nice touch.

Another photo taken in the early 1970's, Wilson Peak taken from Alta Mines near Telluride.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/Altaboarding.jpg

Thanks for all of the kind comments.:thumb: And some very nice shots by several of you! dark13star, I would love to see yours in a bigger size! Very nice! Love the unconventional view of the Bells.....

I think I might just post one photo a day for awhile (until everyone gets bored:deadhorse:).....I'll post a link to the main website where I have some wallpaper sized files (but still only 1024 pixels on the longest side) at a later date. These will be usually around 800 pixels or so.

Today's shot is of the Beckwith Mountains near Paonia. This was taken at sunrise....very chilly with absolutely no wind, so the water was really like glass. Enjoy!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Not%20quite%20Fall%2006/IMGP2319-3.jpg

Wow, nice shot!

Is linking to someone else's fine photos alright? If not, I apologize, but I do have to pay tribute to my first mountain experience - the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
I'll follow that up with some shots I took while on a ride.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1424/1323978532_7803690bcb.jpg?v=0


The following were on a bike ride up Mt Palomar in Southern California near San Diego in October of 2008.

Mt. Palomar, somewhere up there.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/michsis/paloride1.jpg

Looking back from where I came.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/michsis/paloride3.jpg

After nearly an hour of climbing in thick clouds, I'm finally above the clouds.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/michsis/paloride13.jpg

Great Sand Dunes near Alamosa, Colorado.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Great%20Sand%20Dunes/P1030400-2.jpg

ccd rider, if you keep posting these, I will get discouraged and put all my photography equipment on ebay.

Seriously though, that is one of the best sand dunes shots I have seen. Love the colors.

Great Sand Dunes is a magical place, I always hate the winds in San Luis Valley, until I get to the dunes and see what the wind creates. Great shot, well worth waiting for late afternoon for that one.

March 2, 2009 Above Red Cliff, CO
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/Hut3.jpg

One hour later, Mt of the Holy Cross
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/holycross.jpg

This pair of peaks probably needs no description......

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Bells.jpg

http://k41.pbase.com/g6/72/74072/2/73431526.fr4Yl13c.jpg

Mt Lemon

http://www.judyepstein.com/images/Mt.%20Lemmon/Mt-Lemmon-Snow-LG.jpg

We get snow in Southern Az!

http://www.mkp.org/images/santacat.jpg

Another view of the Catalina Mountains

Longs Peak and company.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/IMGP3898-4.jpg

Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Winter%2007/IMGP2995-1.jpg

Tricky to get a shot there without any of the city included, but you did it, nice work. Beautiful morning shot.

Thanks, Shifty. The light was very cooperative.....it made up for the lack of clouds.

Foggy morning in Rocky Mountain National Park.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Trail%20Ridge/IMGP4106.jpg

Rugged terrain east of Ridgeway, Colorado.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/San%20Juans%202005/DSC02592-2.jpg

ccd rider, I'm not bored yet, keep them coming!!!

Thanks, valygrl. I seem to have hijacked the thread! I hope some others post their photos. I would really like to see some shots from where people have ridden.....even if they are just for posterity purposes.

OK, I'll un-hijack it.

From the campground at St. Mary's / Glacier National Park, summer 2008.
http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/6393/cookecitytostmary014.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cookecitytostmary014.jpg)

Near Cooke City, WY, summer 2008. I think it's called Pilot Peak.
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/619/meatpilotoz9.jpg (http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=meatpilotoz9.jpg)

Very nice VG! Pilot Peak looks like a fun climb.

In Chicago Basin in the San Juan Range. If you've been there you may have seen this family of goats.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/AAChibasin.jpg

In Chicago Basin in the San Juan Range. If you've been there you may have seen this family of goats.
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Gorgeous.

OK, I'll un-hijack it.



Near Cooke City, WY, summer 2008. I think it's called Pilot Peak.


COOL! It is called Pilot Peak.....and it's very interesting because from other angles it is not nearly as impressive (similar to Lone Eagle Peak in Colorado). Did you ride over Beartooth Pass? Love that place!

In Chicago Basin in the San Juan Range. If you've been there you may have seen this family of goats.


Nice! I have been there several times, and always enjoy the goats. Did you climb Windom, Sunlight, and Eolus?

COOL! It is called Pilot Peak.....and it's very interesting because from other angles it is not nearly as impressive (similar to Lone Eagle Peak in Colorado). Did you ride over Beartooth Pass? Love that place!

No, gotta do that next time. I did Cody to Cooke City via Rt 296, Chief Joseph Hwy / Sunlight Basin road / Dead Indian Pass. (Can't tell what to call it from the map.) It was really spectacular.

Nice! I have been there several times, and always enjoy the goats. Did you climb Windom, Sunlight, and Eolus?Yes, then hiked out over Columbine Pass then down Valicito River. We had taken the train in, so had to hitch back to town, got a ride in the back of a pickup in the rain, but it beat walking:D

Yes, then hiked out over Columbine Pass then down Valicito River. We had taken the train in, so had to hitch back to town, got a ride in the back of a pickup in the rain, but it beat walking:D

Whoa, that's a haul. I've done that trail too. Backpacked in from Vallecito trailhead, then up Johnson Canyon to just before Columbine Pass. Next morning climbed Windom Peak. It was BRUTAL coming back over the pass in the same day (and that trail? on the Chicago Basin side of the pass is pretty nasty!).....I came back the next year to do Eolus and Sunlight with the train ride. Love the mountain talk.:cheers:

No, gotta do that next time. I did Cody to Cooke City via Rt 296, Chief Joseph Hwy / Sunlight Basin road / Dead Indian Pass. (Can't tell what to call it from the map.) It was really spectacular.


That's a very nice route too.....and you have the names right. I'm really impressed you know them because many/most don't bother to recall. That is truly one of the most beautiful parts of the country.....kinda gets lost in the shuffle with Yellowstone and Tetons so close. Beartooth Pass might be the prettiest place (in a rugged sort of way) I've seen.....you should definitely put it on your short list. Keep posting the pics! :thumb:

Okay, you two have whetted my appetite to post some shots from your respective areas.....so one for valygrl from the Wyoming side of Beartooth Pass looking southeast toward the eastern edge of the Absaroka Range:



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Beartooth/IMGP1304-1.jpg

.....and one for Shifty from the summit of Windom Peak looking northwest toward from left to right, Sunlight Peak, the incredible Sunlight Spire (a few more feet and it would be the most difficult 14er!), Arrow Peak, and the AWESOME Vestal Peak in the Grenadiers :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/img005.jpg

Nice photo of Sunlight and beyond, Windom and Sunlight make for an awfully nice day in the mountains, then a nap at Twin Lakes before the storms build and you have to race down to camp. The first 3 times I went in there we could camp at Twin Lakes, that is not allowed these days. It was sure entertaining to sit in camp at the lakes in the evening and watch the Mountain Goats climb up the head wall between Sunlight and Eolus, jumping from one toehold to the next like it was nothing, then they would be over the top for the night. My photo above was 2007, it made my 6th time there, and the evening storms were pretty harsh, but it was dryer for 2 nights on the Vallecito River, it was a pretty casual trip overall. Next I want to wander about on the Cimarron River drainage below Uncompahgre Peak, your photo from that area fuels that desire. I'll be in Crested Butte in July, so I'm planning time there then.

Meadow skipping to Broken Top Peak in the Oregon Cascades
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Here a few snapshots from riding up Mt. Evans.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/2631516681_f6050164ff.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2632342908_04687ffc42.jpg

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Here a few snapshots from riding up Mt. Evans.
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Wow, you won the weather lottery! I still haven't done Mt. Evans - this year, I hope!

Yes, the weather....and (what looks like) no traffic(???).

Here's another shot from Beartooth Pass.....including the actual Beartooth in the far distance:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Beartooth/IMGP1293.jpg

For Mt. Evans, you start early and good weather is likely, as well as no traffic. I usually see the cars and the clouds on my way back down.

For Mt. Evans, you start early and good weather is likely, as well as no traffic. I usually see the cars and the clouds on my way back down.

How long does it take you to get up there (assuming you start at Echo Lake)? How long to get down? And what time is "early" typically?

How long does it take you to get up there (assuming you start at Echo Lake)? How long to get down? And what time is "early" typically?

I just checked on my 3 rides from last year. My quickest time from Echo Lake was about 2.5 hours and my slowest was 3.5 hours (riding with my wife, taking pictures, etc.). Even 2.5 hours is not cranking, just a nice pace.

General rule is to be off the summit by noon. I like to shoot for 11, but that is tough when starting in Idaho Springs or Evergreen. From Echo Lake, 8 or 8:30 should leave you enough time.

It takes about an hour to come down, but I descend slowly, especially on that road and I usually stop for photos.

Damn! Too many nice photos -- I can't single out just a few.

Hope to have some of my own to contribute in the not too distant future.

Fall colors, LaManga Pass.....near New Mexico/Colorado border:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Fall%2007/IMGP4238-3.jpg

How about a few with some wildlife in them...

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1163/1470362298_ef6a9f5acc.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/1470358616_5c71ad5784.jpg

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Another slide that I scanned, also from the 1970's. Pomeroy Lake basin above St Elmo and actually near the Alpine Tunnel.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d126/telehammer/Stelmo.jpg

Great shots......love the goats! Here's another Great Sand Dunes shot......one of my favorites because it looks so surreal:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/P1030342-2.jpg

Sangre de Cristos in southern Colorado:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v259/ccd333/Sangre%20de%20Cristo/BlancaBWphotobucket.jpg