Hiking & Camping

Here is my page of my hiking adventures mainly in Colorado and a couple trips to Utah. These are all taken with my DSLR of my trips. If I had a good cell phone back when I used film I could have taken a lot more snapshots of the nearby landscape without taking time to set up the tripod. Now I use my phone for the GPS, camera and taking notes and planning. Of course charging it at night if I get the chance, with my USB charger of course not my car or hotel.

Perfect sunrise, Rawah Wilderness in marsh area

This was on a backpacking trip with my friend John and we caught a great sunrise with great colors at 6am.

Rawah Wilderness backpacking trip with John.

I went on a 4 day hike with my friend John Fielder to capture nature pictures. It was awesome but a little bit of rain. We didn't have to haul a heavy load since we had llamas carrying most of the heavy load.

Backpacking with Llamas in Rawah Wilderness

I was with my friend John Fielder backpacking through the Rawah Wilderness in the northern part of the Front Range of Colorado. These Llamas carried our heavy load of overnight gear. We carried stuff that we needed frequently.

Waiting for sunrise

People all lined up to take the exact same shot. I stepped to the right and you can see my shot in the Western Gallery

Windy Ridge backpacking

Near the Bristlecone Pine Scenic Area inside the Pike National Forest

Muddy Trail near Lower Cataract Lake

This lake is not up a steep hill that will test your hearts limits. Very scenic area with many wildflowers

Maroon Bells Scott & Jackie

I took my mom on a wonderful moderate hike into the mountains up around 10,000 ft. Weather was perfect which made it possible. We went up to Crater lake right below the Maroon Bells in the Wilderness.

View of trail up Mt Lincoln.

On a different day I went up to the right of the mountain, then up a slope just to the right of dead center of the pic seems like a 45º angle (but it wan't) and down in the middle of two ridges and down to the lake where hail started to fall. Definitely the hardest mountain I have climbed mainly because of the route we took.

Mt Lincoln- route

The red is the route I went up. The yellow is the route down which was less steep although still rock hopping quite a bit. Once we got down the steep section right above the lake it started hailing. We got so lucky. I did this when I was about 24 yrs old. Very strong and fairly good coordination.

Shrine Pass in the Holy Cross Wilderness

This is a 12 minute exposure of the tent and stars spinning around the north star which above the tent and near the top.