The mountains were calling, and I'm glad I went !

  Contact: Rich Kurz   Page content last updated June 28, 2013

THE PHOTO OPS  (map is 1.2 MB)
1 - Bear Lake (9475 ft.)
2 - Glacier Gorge trailhead
3 - Lake Haiyaha (10,220 ft.)
4 - The Loch (10,560 ft.)
5 - Black Lake (10,630 ft.)
6 - Sky Pond (10,887 ft.)


 Black Lake - Saturday February 9, 2013

THERE AND BACK
1-Success looks certain from the parking lot
2-The "Wind Tree" on the hilltop
3-Close-up of the tree
4-Clouds moving in at Mills Lake
5-Over the river and thru the woods...
6-In the aspen - almost home (sigh)

AT MILLS LAKE
1-Temperature: teens to twenties / Wind: almost none
2-Looking back towards Glacier Gorge trailhead
3-It looked even grander in person

AT BLACK LAKE
Temperature: teens probably / Wind: slight
Time to goal: 3 hrs with stops / 2.25 hrs hiking
Description: full 360 degree view



 Lake Haiyaha - Saturday January 12, 2013

ON THE WAY
1-Take the backtrail again to Nymph Lake
2-Then bushwack past the Crux to Haiyaha

AT THE LAKE
1-Temperature: 0 deg. maybe / Wind: 5-10 mph
2-But the wind was only at Haiyaha
3-Nymph Lake



 Sky Pond - Saturday April 07, 2012

THE WAY THERE
1-The day begins well
2-Our goal in sight. Only need microspikes today!
3-The winter approach to the Loch
4-Between the Loch and a hard place
5-The precarious boulder, and we had to
squeeze behind it on the way down

AT THE LAKE
Temperature: ~10 deg.  Wind: negligible
1-Looking back towards the Loch
2-Success!
3-The hard-faced majesty surrounds and soars around you
4-It's easy to imagine other-worldliness up here

STEREOVIEWS
These can be viewed using the parallel viewing method.
1-Looking north towards Estes Park
2-Looking south at Sky Pond


 Lake Haiyaha - Saturday December 10, 2011

HEADING OFF-TRAIL
1-Day dawns late, so head out early
2-Then bushwack to the Crux waypoint
3-Almost there - follow the stream

ONTO THE LAKE
1-And over the boulders
2-Waddling onto the Lake
  Temperature: 0 deg. / Wind: 5-10 mph
3-Ice uplift close to shore

FUN & GOOD-BYES
1-Our "Pringles" photo for Ron T.
2-The return - on Nymph Lake
3-STEREOVIEW - On the Lake
This can be viewed using the parallel viewing method.