Mountains are the bomb!

First of all, another black and white film picture from our August trip to Colorado for Pikes Peak Ascent. We climbed Mt. Democrat on the Thursday before the race and camped at Kite Lake. That gave us two nights above 12,000 feet and a climb to 14,000 feet. Good for acclimatizing to the altitude, and actually not all that hard. The climb took a couple of hours, but that is because we took our time. It was harder than climbing Mt. Tamalpais, because of the altitude, but otherwise it was comparable. I've never felt dizzy on Mt. Tam, for example. Here's the picture Lori took of me and Cookie.



She is such a good dog!

Tonight Lori asked me to dig out a photo from our 2007 vacation to the Grand Tetons and to Yellowstone. While visiting the Tetons we camped at a secret campsite, that had a view of the Cathedral Group of the Tetons, when an evening storm started rolling in from the west. I had hoped to shoot the sunset, but this didn't look too promising at first. But as the storm crossed the mountain range, it started to break up. We ended up getting only light rain, and here is the view we had:



If you click on the photo you will see a larger version that has a bit more detail in the darker foreground. The original actually has much more detail than that, but these are the limitations of blogging -- and my willingness to put this photo on the Internet. In either case, the beauty of the mountains speak for themselves.

Night, night!