When you get up at 4:30am to go on a 6am photo hike, you just might take a lot of photos. And if the light is good, you might take a few that you like. And if you are in Rocky Mountain National Park, you have some beautiful subject matter. The morning stillness of Nymph Lake provided a perfect backdrop for our first stop. Waterlilies are only starting to pop up in the lake.
More Nymph Lake reflections.
Walking around to the far side of Nymph Lake brought a reflection of Longs Peak and Thatchtop.
Further up the trail from Nymph, the view to Glacier Gorge opens up. The glacier knobs show up against the higher gorge, and half mountain does appear to be sliced in half from the force of the glaciers.
As the sun starting hitting the rocks and warming up the chilly morning, a marmot joined us on the trail.
Dream Lake may be the most photographed lake in the park, but for good reason. A short hike with a big reward. Hallet and the buttresses of Flattop tower in the distance.
There is a slightly better chance of mirrorlike reflections in the early morning than any other time of day. Our luck continued to hold as we roamed around the shore of Dream Lake.
Jacobs Ladder was one of the few flowers in bloom in the subalpine area around Dream and Emerald.
I'm slowly learning how to use the panorama mode on my new camera. I can finally get a full shot of Emerald Lake.
Our group at Emerald Lake - Jill (with Muenca), John, Maggie, and Bruce.
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