BLOWING SNOW ON MT. BIERSTADT

This is the famous scene painted in the late 1800s by Albert Bierstadt. It can be reached by auto by taking the first road to the left once inside the South Gate of Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado.

AUTUMN ON THE ARKANSAS RIVER BELOW SALIDA

Fall comes early in the high country. These narrowleaf cottonwoods provide gorgeous color along the Arlansas River near Salida.

MT SHAVANO ON AN AUTUMN MORNING

Mt Shavano is a fourteener at the southern end of the Saguache Range that forms the western side of the Upper Arkansas Valley.

FROM THE RIVERBANK BELOW SALIDA

This view is of the northernmost peak in the Sangre de Christo Range, which runs from just south of Salida all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.