I was in CO last weekend and Rosia and I went up to Rocky Mountain National Park. RMNP is one of my favorite places on earth. It’s hard to think that me, or any of my problems, are all that important when I’m around the mountains. The photos from my phone don’t even come close to doing the views justice. PLEASE just go touch them for yourself!!!!
RMNP has the highest highway in the country with parts of it hitting over 12,000 feet. Once you get up over 11,000 feet you cross the tree line and enter the tundra where the air is so thin trees aren’t able to grow. Even though there are no trees there are lots of small shrubs that take hundreds of years to grow only a few inches.
On our way up the mountains we stopped off in Estes Park, which is a small town just outside of RMNP. Apparently its elk mating season because elk were out in full force.
I had never seen an elk before, but 47 of them decided to take a tour of Estes Park the same time we did. They took over a local golf course and we watched a bull defend his heard from a couple of young bucks.
I loved being back up in the mountains, and closer to nature but this time coming straight from sea level the altitude really worked me over. It didn't dampen my trip at all but it did give new meaning to the phrase dizzying heights for me. I guess my east coast roots are coming through.
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