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Far over the Misty Mountains...

Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 20 2015, 12:49am

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Far over the Misty Mountains... Can't Post

We were up in Rocky Mountain National Park yesterday, and it was rainy and foggy. I commented that we were lucky; some people might be here on their only visit and not see any of the mountains. That gave us the idea to take photos of some of our favorite views, of the invisible mountains we knew were there. In order: Twin Sisters, Deer Mountain, Mount Ypislon, Hallets Peak, Flattop Mountain, and two photos of Longs Peak.

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Brethil
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May 20 2015, 1:16am

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Gorgeous Aunt Dora! [In reply to] Can't Post

My that *ice*! And the cold misty look - it looks quite primeval.









Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 20 2015, 5:20am

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The snow is still 4 feet deep at Bear Lake [In reply to] Can't Post

We walked around the lake, which is usually a very easy stroll, and Uncle Baggins said "Walking around Bear Lake has never been this much of an adventure before." You could walk on top of the snow, but now and then you'd see a deep hole in the snow where someone had broken through.

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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Brethil
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May 20 2015, 12:16pm

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How long does the snow stay? All year? [In reply to] Can't Post

Or does it melt a bit at some point, or is it different every year? It seems a nice built-in water reservoir. That kind of height to have snowcaps fuddles me: it seems unbelievable, having grown up here on LI where the very highest point is - I'm not sure of the exact number - about 175 *feet* above sea level.


Thank you for a vicarious hiking thrill.









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Kilidoescartwheels
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May 20 2015, 1:13pm

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the Misty Mountains - COLD!!! [In reply to] Can't Post

It DOES look cold - whereabout is the Rocky Mountain park? My hubby grew up in Limon, CO. His Dad lives in Colorado Springs. It's a bit cool and misty in OKC right now, though it looks much colder in your pics.

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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 20 2015, 2:30pm

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Depends on where you are. [In reply to] Can't Post

At Bear Lake it's mostly gone by the middle of June. Here are some photos of a hike from last June 13 that started at Bear Lake and went up a little, from 9000 feet to about 10,500 feet. You can see there was still some snow. But by August it was pretty much gone. That hike goes up to over 12,000 feet. There are a few glaciers that stay all year, but they've been getting a lot smaller through the decades.

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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 20 2015, 2:38pm

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Rocky is about 150 miles north-northwest of Colorado Springs [In reply to] Can't Post

From where I live, I can see Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs, though it's over 100 miles south of here. Only on a good clear day, though.

It was chilly but not bitter cold the day I took those photos. About 40 degrees.

I have a very sweet memory of Limon. One really grueling day, we had to go visit an ill family member in the hospital in Colorado Springs, and then go pick up his car in Burlington and drive it back to Denver. It was a really hard day with hundreds of miles of driving. About suppertime we came into Limon, weary and sad and worried, with 150 miles still to go. There we found a lovely little railroad museum, and for an hour we were able to imagine that we were on a vacation.

All the way home, I was singing the song "Big Old Jet Airliner", which I had mis-heard all my life as "Big Old Jet Out of Limon". What makes that funny is that Limon is a very small town and there would be no place for a big old jet to land there.

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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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Annael
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May 20 2015, 3:39pm

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ours is going fast [In reply to] Can't Post

I can see Mount Townsend is almost bare. That's a month or more ahead of schedule.

We're very worried about fires this summer. Especially after the horrible fire in the Methow Valley last July which burned over a quarter million acres.

In the depths of the mystery of freedom, we are asked to participate in creating the good by wanting it, needing it, choosing it, imagining it. . . . We must project the good outward onto the other in order to receive it ourselves.

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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 20 2015, 4:12pm

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I understand the fire worry. [In reply to] Can't Post

You hear that a lot around here, as we're having more rain than usual: "Maybe it will keep the fires down this summer."

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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories

leleni at hotmail dot com
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dernwyn
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May 20 2015, 11:55pm

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Are you sure, that they're still there [In reply to] Can't Post

...and haven't been picked up and carried off by a rock-giant? Wink

I do like that one of Flattop, barely visible across the icy lake. It's like something in a fairy tale.


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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 21 2015, 12:58am

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A local friend who is a painter [In reply to] Can't Post

said, when I shared them on facebook, "I could paint them in for you." She knew exactly where they were. Yep, pretty sure they were still there :-) Uncle Baggins kept saying, "Yet another view of Longs Peak," just as he does when it's visible.

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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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leleni at hotmail dot com
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Brethil
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May 21 2015, 1:10am

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What an amazing expanse of open space. [In reply to] Can't Post

I love all the shots - but the sneaker one, existentially perfect. Wink Is that stone cairn significant of anything or just something some one made?









Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 21 2015, 4:39am

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The cairns were put up in about 1920 by the Park Service [In reply to] Can't Post

after a hiker wandered off the edge of the summit in a blinding snowstorm and fell to his death. They're really helpful finding the trail when visibility is low. They line the trail for miles, and look pretty mysterious.

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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 21 2015, 4:41am

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On the news tonight they were comparing Denver to Seattle [In reply to] Can't Post

on account of our wet weather. Turns out Seattle is having much sunnier and warmer weather. But when you're worried about fires, that's not necessarily a good thing.

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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories

leleni at hotmail dot com
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Kim
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May 21 2015, 5:07am

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Wow [In reply to] Can't Post

When I was at Bear Lake in Sept 2013, we were walking around in shorts, no snow in sight. I always find the mountains in Colorado deceptive - it doesn't feel like the altitude is as high as it is because it's so dry and there's no snow. Where I live, if you're at 12,000 ft, there's snow year round! And of course, our single "Fourteener" is always covered. Smile



Annael
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May 21 2015, 2:47pm

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we don't worry about them on this side of the Cascades [In reply to] Can't Post

our state has a wet side and a dry side; we do get fires on this side, but never big ones (knock on wood!); it's the dry side that gets the big ones.

Having lived here all my life, the climate change in the last 10-15 years has been dramatic. For us on the wet side, a "heat wave" used to be when the temperatures went over 80, which happened rarely and never for more than a couple of days at a time. Now we get temps in the 90s every summer. We used to have a distinct weather pattern where it would rain from November through April, but never so hard that you couldn't walk around without an umbrella. We'd have snow a few times with a two-week period of very low temps (for us - teens and oughts) and hard frost in February; May would be LOVELY, it would rain again in June (as soon as school got out) through July 5th (always cold on the Fourth), then turn mild often through October. Now, it rains more and harder through the fall-winter-spring, while the summers are hotter and drier.

In the depths of the mystery of freedom, we are asked to participate in creating the good by wanting it, needing it, choosing it, imagining it. . . . We must project the good outward onto the other in order to receive it ourselves.

-- Ann Bedford Ulanov

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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967


Annael
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May 21 2015, 2:55pm

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I remember being so disappointed by Mt. Elbert [In reply to] Can't Post

it doesn't even look like a mountain. When you grow up in sight of Mount Rainier or the other major volcanoes of the Cascade Range, most other mountains fail to impress. Okay, Denali looks pretty cool . . .

A friend who hiked into Everest Base Camp once went with me to Mount Rainier where we hiked on the Sunrise side. She pointed out that we could see from 3,000 feet (the river valley below) to 14,000 feet - 11,000 feet of mountain - which was the same amount of elevation she saw looking at Everest from Base Camp at 18.000 feet to the summit at 29,000 feet.

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In the depths of the mystery of freedom, we are asked to participate in creating the good by wanting it, needing it, choosing it, imagining it. . . . We must project the good outward onto the other in order to receive it ourselves.

-- Ann Bedford Ulanov

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NARF and member of Deplorable Cultus since 1967

(This post was edited by Annael on May 21 2015, 3:00pm)


Kim
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May 22 2015, 3:48am

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Whoa [In reply to] Can't Post


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A friend who hiked into Everest Base Camp once went with me to Mount Rainier where we hiked on the Sunrise side. She pointed out that we could see from 3,000 feet (the river valley below) to 14,000 feet - 11,000 feet of mountain - which was the same amount of elevation she saw looking at Everest from Base Camp at 18.000 feet to the summit at 29,000 feet.



That's kind of mind-blowing way to think about it! Shocked



Brethil
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May 22 2015, 12:09pm

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They do look very mysterious and intriguing [In reply to] Can't Post

glad they serve such a good purpose though.









Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 22 2015, 4:39pm

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Here's one of my favorite photos of them. [In reply to] Can't Post

photo. I had to do a lot of research to find out their story. The rangers didn't know. There are a lot of Ute artifacts up there too, old rock walls and things.

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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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"A Chance Meeting at Rivendell" and other stories

leleni at hotmail dot com
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