Pictures from Colorado (part 2)
- Rocky Mountains NP: our first day, a nice hikes between forest, mountains and lakes
- Rocky Mountains NP
- Rocky Mountains NP
- Rocky Mountains NP
- Rocky Mountains NP
- Rocky Mountains NP: nice bird, don’t remember the name…
- Rocky Mountains NP
- Rocky Mountains NP: afternoon storm… like every single day here during summer
- Rocky Mountains NP: above the tree line, some elks enjoying the fresh grass
- Rocky Mountains NP: from the pass, 12000 feet
- Rocky Mountains NP: believe it or not, this is the mighty Colorado river
- Rocky Mountains NP: ready for the storm
- Rocky Mountains NP: around 12000ft, we can feel it when we breathe
- Rocky Mountains NP: towards Longs Peak summit, it’s 6 o’clock on the morning, we already walked for 4h
- Rocky Mountains NP: morning sun lighting Longs Peak
- Rocky Mountains NP: across the boulder field… not easy but it’s worse after
- Rocky Mountains NP: climbing
- Rocky Mountains NP: what a panorama… the full Rocky Mountain range
- Rocky Mountains NP: from the summit – 4346m !
- Rocky Mountains NP: the top of our trip.
- Rocky Mountains NP
- Rocky Mountains NP: back to the tree line, the hike is almost finished… It will last 14h.
- Boulder : a charming town with the Rockies behind
- Colorado Springs : the Garden of Gods
- Rocky Mountains NP: almost like Utah !
- Manitou Springs: one of the numerous sparkling water spring in town, convenient to fill our bottles
- Manitou Springs : question, why in all American towns, the nicest building is always the post office?
- Manitou Springs: tired by our climb, we will reach the summit of another 14ers by train.
- Pikes Peak : looks nice but it was freezing there… maybe the altitude
- Pikes Peak : why not to continue that way ?
- Pikes Peak : this incredible train reaches the summit in less than an hour.
- Pikes Peak
- Colorado Springs: USA training center, did you know that the US government is not financing the US champions at all?
- Bent’s fort : a private fort at the border with Mexico dedicated to the trade…
- Bent’s fort: trading post
- Bent’s fort: then used by the US army during the Mexican War
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