This morning we drove up Mt Evans. It is the highest paved road in North America. It was 13 miles from our campground to the entrance to the road and then another 13 miles up the mountain. Twila and I had gone up the mountain when we were here last year in June. I thought you might find the difference in these two picture interesting. The first picture was taken the 17th of June 2009 and the second picture today.
Both pictures are of Summit Lake which is about 5 miles from the top of the mountain. The next two pictures are in the same order but you couldn’t tell by what Twila is wearing. The first time we went up we had no idea what it would be like on the top so she didn’t even have a jacket. As you can see in the picture taken today we had learned our lesson.
When we were there in 2009 there was snow everywhere so we didn’t see the Mountain Goats we saw today. We drove all the way to Alaska and came back to Colorado to get the best pictures of Mountain Goats.
I also got a picture of an animal I had never seen in the wild. I had seen stuffed ones in some of the National Forest Welcome Centers but never alive. They are Pika. This one was about 8 inches long and was really fast when it moved.
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