Dreamweaver is the right hand snow line, but it was not enough for a solo

The wind also aided my decision to take it easy.

The wind was alive up there, looking along Lady Washington's South Face.

Despite this, I found an excellent stash of ice below Chasm Lake.  I monkeyed around for a bit with a little ice climbing and a little dry tooling.  Good times!

The ice flows from Chasm Lake above. This was taken after my play time.

Along the base of the ice flows.

Naturally, I was alone and without a tripod.  Therefore, I have no really cool self portraits of my climbing.

Jasper Peak

South Arapaho Peak from the NE basin of Jasper Peak.

This was an excellent day out on Friday.

Cougar tracks we saw along with fresh scat.

Self Portrait

My friend that joined me on this excursion.

Check out my panoramic of the view North of Jasper Peak here: South Arapaho Pano it’s in a Black and White with a 30% Sepia tone.

So once my shift ended this morning I blitzed up to Frisco’s Main st and I-70 trailhead parking for the Tenmile Range and arrived just prior to 0700.  The initial goal was Peak One or  Tenmile Peak to get a sense of the Tenmile Range Traverse.  I left my car at 0700 knowing that I had a possibility of T-storms around 1300.

The bike path start

It’s about a half mile towards Breck to the Royal trailhead.

A lot of interesting information about the old Masontown site.

The morning light was fabulous for taking shots of the dew on flowers.

Lots of blooming flower variety along the trail to Mount Royal and Mount Victoria

Summit of Mount Royal

The hill wasn’t too bad

One of the steep sections leading up to Mount Victoria's Northern Shoulder

One of the views along the crest of the Tenmile Range looking Northwest into the Gore range.

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amazing all day.  As I worked my way up the East side of the Mount Victoria I could look out over Frisco towards the Continental Divide.

Dillon and Frisco with Torrey's and Grays in the right distance

The view of Peak one from near the second false summit.

Self Portrait on Mount Victoria

Parting shot back towards Peak one and Mount Victoria on the descent

All in all,  it took 44 mins to get to the top of mount Royal and 2.5 hrs to get to the false summit of Peak 1 where I turned around.  Another 1.5 hrs back to the car and then I trip over to David’s restaurant Food Hedz where I talked climbing with David and then refueled a little for the drive home.  For some reason I couldn’t sleep and was awake until 0130 this morning for a total of 36 hrs awake after I finally fell asleep I slept 11 hours.  If you’re ever in the Frisco, Silverthorne, Breckenridge or even Cooper and Vail mountain areas Food Hedz is certainly worth a stop.

View my Panoramic here

Another shot from my Woodland Park Zoo batch that I liked.

I got this shot today at work. Although, I wish I had a better lens to get a crisper shot. This one is cropped.

I took this shot below Crown Point yesterday after I took the panoramic of the cliff above the train.

As of today this is the largest “Stitched Panoramic” image I have taken. At a focal length of 135mm standing roughly 400 feet away…this image took 75 individual frames.