Afternoon, Atmosphere, Black & White, Black and White, Clouds, Colorado, Colorado Rockies, Colorado Rocky Mountains, Creek, Great Sand Dunes, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, National Parks, Rockies, Rocky Mountains, Sand, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Sangre de Cristo Wilderness, Sky, Stream, Summer, United States, Water, Landscape, Horizontal
July 21-22, 2008

My housemate and I took a week long vacation and headed for the southwest Colorado. The first stop was The Great Sand Dunes National Park. It was my first time there and we spent two nights at the campsite. It really is a remarkable place -- several hundred foot dunes with the Rockies in the background. ...

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Arapaho National Forest, Atmosphere, Black & White, Black and White, Clouds, Colorado, Colorado Rockies, Colorado Rocky Mountains, Fog, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Lake, Lake Isabelle, Morning, Mountain Peaks, Mountains, Rockies, Rocks, Rocky Mountains, Sky, Snow, Summer, Trees, United States, Landscape, Horizontal
June 28, 2008

Michael and I left the Broomfield, CO area at 3:00am in order to hit the trailhead to Lake Isabelle by 4:00am. We aimed to reach the lake by sunrise (~5:30am) and it was a very empty park at that hour.

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