Sky Pond, one and only. Managed to get there yesterday morning before latest snow storm rolled in. Going up the waterfalls, being the first up, what looked like in the last few days, was a bear. All worth it. Have you been there in the winter?
Another shot from our recent drive through the Trail Ridge Road in RMNP. Getting those signs cleared is important, don’t want drives drive straight into the cliff.
Its nice to be about one hour drive away from places like this. With all types of other things happening in life we can’t go there every weekend, but when we do manage, it never disappoints. Views are spectacular.
Trail Ridge Road or HW34 is part of Rocky Mountain National Park that connects Estes Park with Grand Lake during summer months. It opens on Memorial weekend and closes sometimes in early fall after it get covered with snow. Since most of this road is above 9000 feet at some parts around 12000 feet it is covered under large amounts of snow, which must be cleared out to make driving possible. I really wanted to see how much snow it really is, so we went to check it out just couple days after the road was opened for the summer.
Pretty awesome. In some parts it was at least 20 feet high walls of snow. Some parts were more like in the tunnel. More to come over the next few days.
This is from the Mills Lake hike as well. Pretty much everyone who takes this hike is passing over this creek, especially if you park at the top parking lot. I think I took a photo of it every time I was over it. Perhaps one day I’m going to find them all and do a little compilation.
