Highlights from Mt. Elbert

[UICompE02]

I managed to make it up to the top of the highest mountain Colorado this weekend, Mt. Elbert at 14,433 feet. Here are some of the photos I took along the way and at the top. I still need to do a bit more processing on them, the lighting was getting tricky as the sun kept coming and going and there were random clouds and haze everywhere.

View of the summit about a mile and a half into the trail:

View of Mt. Massive (#2 in Colorado) West of the trail:

Looking to a storm coming from the West at the summit:

More mountains to the West:

The brave group of hikers (I'm in the middle):

And the new coating of white stuff on the summit that was from the hail storm we had to run all the way back down in:

 

[Tim_axe]

I love the colors of the mountains in the distance on the 3rd picture. I also like the 8th picture. See if you like how they look with the foreground cropped out.

Looked like a fun hike. The guy on the left doesn't look like he was wearning enough for the hail

 

[Bugalaman]

great pictures! Colorado is such a beautiful place.