Man i love the Rockies in summer!
 

My dad, step mom, brother, nephew and I all took a drive into the Sangre De Cristo mountains this morning and BBQ's ribs, potato salad and sweetcorn. We ate our feast, relax for a bit and then took my truck up to the top of the mountain. We were at just over 12,000 feet when we got out of the truck and started hiking to an area as we caught a glimpse of something way out in the distance. I can't say right now what they were but i'll post the movies as soon as i put them together :party0005:
Spanish Peaks


Awesome ledge where i was filming. I only have a 10x zoom but it was enough to tell me what the animals were.


As fat and out of shape as he is, My boy was right on our heals for the most of the hike,


No clue what kind of tree this was but check out the pine cones in bloom!

Awesome pics!! Thanks for posting them.

I'd be willing to bet it's a type of red pine.... :D The West is hard to beat. Got on a couple fish in WY yesterday..

Awesome pics fellas! Thanks!

Great pictures.

Here are a couple of pictures taken in our back yard this morning. There is a couple city street a way off in the distance below the horizon. Mule deer is what they are. The deer are kind enough to sculpt them lilac bush to the left, and behind the ash tree.

MD.......... those pics are over rated.....
You need to move east where we have TRAFFIC.......POLUTION......MORE TRAFFIC.....MORE POLUTION.....HOUSES ON TOP OF HOUSES.....AND I WILL SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST.........OBAMA!!!!!!!! you can't get those things in the rockies..:barmy:

I may have got you beat jaybez, in addition to all the traffic, pollution, houses on top of houses, urban sprawl, we also have Mayor Richard Daley- the most rabidly anti-gun politician I've ever seen (and an idiot to boot). So now since the Supreme Court struck down his illegal handgun ban, he's crafted a whole new set of regulations that still makes it almost impossible to own a handgun.

So with all, that, who wants to live out West??????? :)

Nice pictures. I bet you don't have the mosquitos like we are having here. Ron, are those triplet fawns?
Art

MountainDevil54

Them tree with the red cones could maybe be Bristlecone Pine. Never knew they had such pretty red cones though. Did you see any Pika up there? Big country like that kinda makes one feel something strange.

Whats Pika?

About Pika

A video of Pika

We find them at high elevations on talus slopes. 12,000' is plenty high to be in Pika habitat. In Montana we see them at 8000' to 9000' when we hunt for Elk that seem to think they are goats, and wander around on talus slopes. We only see pika when it is warm. Some call them rock rabbits or conies

Wife called her sister first thing this morning to tell her about our first triplets since we lived here. Folks around here worry about West Nile, so the county sprays for mosquito, thus there are very few to be found.

Here is a deer in the daylight.







These boys were huffing and puffing as though something had them on the run for awhile. They laid down right outside our living room window last week. We have watched the 3 point since he was a kid. He is real real nice and big and pretty now. If we weren't in the city limits, i think i might kill one deer a year here.

At this time of the year.. it could be the immature cones of the Colorado Blue Spruce. We have blue spruce here in Wisconsin but they are rare. Their needles are longer then what you find on a pine, white or red, or a Balsam tree. Real nice pictures there FG. Very pretty country.

BigZ... that is a heck of a fish fry there. Nothing better then fish on the grill.

Ron... nice pictures. I really like deer pictures.

This morning i went up into the hills to sight in the son in law .22, using cb longs. They have a marmot problem, and wanted a low power quiet killer. One can shoot them without hearing protection, and see them fly to the target through the scope. Here is where i set the target.










Looking up the trail behind the truck about 75 yard to the end of the trail. The targets were shot from the drivers seat of the truck.











A view of Rapid Creek from the edge of a steep drop, that takes my breath away. These pictures were taken about 10 yard past the end of the previously pictured trail.

Ohhhh i didnt know the name... Pika. Weird name LOL. Yes i saw those all over yesterday. We were up over 12,000 feet when we started hearing them chirp and run around all over the rocks.

God's beautiful creation!

The first trip I made to Co.(Cripple Creek)Made me feel very very small.Go to the top of Pikes peak,it is truely an awsome experience.On a clear day you can see Kansas.

Charlie

been up pikes peak 3 times on the Cog railroad. Pretty awesome ride. Especially during the fall.

I want to move to CO. so bad.Maybe one day!
Did manage to visit RMNP and Cheyenne,WY. Dec. '08