Rainbow over Castlebra Peak

It was a very atmospheric summer at Conundrum hot springs

That means very rainy!

Pine Grosbeak seeking salt at the hot springs

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Nice beak!

I'm eating, here!

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It was a big year for rock art, too.

Midnite Mine area of Aspen Mtn. lit up, WAY below

Our hearts went out to all the Aspen billionaires stuck 3300 feet below in their pitiful hot tubs!

Freighted with bodyguards and sycophants, they'd never get up here.

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Marnie the Marmot munching

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marmots are people, too

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This was real, not Photoshopped!

Sunlight on the flanks of Cathedral Peak

Know what kind of birds these are?

elk below Hilliard Peak

alpenglow on Castlebra Peak

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Peak 13,537' with Maroon Bells darkly distant

The weather was beyond atmospheric; it was weird.

Hilliard' Peak's SE ridge, Conundrum, Castle & Castlebra behind

Castle, Castlebra and Peak 13,550'

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the photographer on Peak 13,550'

Castle Peak and it's wicked SE ridge behind

pilar in Peak 13,550's couloir

sunset over Teocalli Peak

I left Peak 13,550' at 7:45 and had to hustle down the talus before dark at 8:30

hailstorm over Conundrum Pass

Castle, Castlebra and Peak 13,550'

Peak 13,550' after hailstorm

Joey, right, after the deluge.

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wet moss with alien eyes

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Peak 13,550'

spectacular irridescent clouds

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Castlebra and Peak 13,550'

Twin Lakes

Twin Lakes and Teocalli Peak

giant puffball past its prime