Last photo from Colorado…
This is a very partial view from our campsite. (Be sure to click on the photo for a larger view!) We camped on a rocky, mushroom-shaped peninsular outcrop in Lost Creek Wilderness at around 8500 ft. It’s hard to tell, but just beyond the big boulder behind us, the rock ledge dropped a few hundred feet down to Goose Creek. On the other side of the canyon were the mountains and rock formations you see in the background. The peak in the top/center was 11,000 feet or so.
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The neatest part about our campsite was that there was pretty much only one direction from which you could get to it; more than half of our campsite was surrounded by a precarious and unnavigable drop down into the valley that surrounded it. (We did manage to scale down the steep rock face along the tree line to the creek and back for a bath and some much needed relaxation after setting up camp; it wasn’t easy, though.)
That’s it for Colorado posts from me. Moving on…
