This post won’t be as long as the last one, I promise. This is meant to be a summary of summer this year for me in the mountains. My tenth anniversary was in August, and I spent a week with my lovely wife doing things that were meant to be a retrospective of our time together, hiking, horseback riding among them. A short visit to the A-frame cabin came later in August, where we were surprised with a smattering of prematurely changing aspen leaves. Unfortunately, time was short in the summer, but I knew that soon fall would be here, and fall is my absolute favorite time of year in the mountains.
Buffalo Mountain at the middle point of our horseback trip.
Buffalo Mountain
Looking east from the Ruby Ranch.
My horse for the day, Charger.
Jen's horse Georgia on the left, and Pablo on the right.
Mount Elbert on a summer morning.
Aspens and a Colorado Blue sky.
Early Aspen color, part one.
Early Aspen color, part two.
Early Aspen color, part three.
I was intrigued by the depth of this grove of Aspens, almost impossible to emulate with a photo, though I try.
Some of the first Colorado Gold of the season.
The Colorado giants: Mount Elbert at 14,443' (left) and Mount Massive at 14,421' (right)
