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Len's "Physical Training For Hunts" Trip To Rocky Mountain National Park
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<blockquote data-quote="Len Backus" data-source="post: 1096633" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I continued hiking higher expecting to encounter snow in the trees at the increasing elevation. I did walk through a little bit but none that was significant. Eventually I reached the area of stunted and twisted trees called krummholz, which characterizes the transition point at altitudes where trees no longer can grow.</p><p></p><p>In this next picture, note the three hikers walking on the skyline in the snow.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-snow-hikers.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Upon reaching the treeless top I came across a father and son who were taking a break right next to the trail marker. The father took the picture of me that is at the top of this story. His son is 17 years old and they were on a backpacking trip over the continental divide -- which runs right through where we all were now sitting.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-cairns.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I told them the story of my own father/son backpacking trip from years ago and I could see a warm reaction between the two of them at this thought. Then they headed off to create more of their own father/son memories in the spectacular high alpine zone of RMNP. I headed down the far side a ways as that had been part of my original plan. And then I came back up to the resting place for a few minutes. I lingered some more while keeping my eye on the building cloud cover in the slightly darkening sky. Then I headed down, pausing to take pictures quite often.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-pools.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-topflowers2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Len Backus, post: 1096633, member: 1"] I continued hiking higher expecting to encounter snow in the trees at the increasing elevation. I did walk through a little bit but none that was significant. Eventually I reached the area of stunted and twisted trees called krummholz, which characterizes the transition point at altitudes where trees no longer can grow. In this next picture, note the three hikers walking on the skyline in the snow. [IMG]http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-snow-hikers.jpg[/IMG] Upon reaching the treeless top I came across a father and son who were taking a break right next to the trail marker. The father took the picture of me that is at the top of this story. His son is 17 years old and they were on a backpacking trip over the continental divide -- which runs right through where we all were now sitting. [IMG]http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-cairns.jpg[/IMG] I told them the story of my own father/son backpacking trip from years ago and I could see a warm reaction between the two of them at this thought. Then they headed off to create more of their own father/son memories in the spectacular high alpine zone of RMNP. I headed down the far side a ways as that had been part of my original plan. And then I came back up to the resting place for a few minutes. I lingered some more while keeping my eye on the building cloud cover in the slightly darkening sky. Then I headed down, pausing to take pictures quite often. [IMG]http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-pools.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://lrhmag.com/images/RMNP-topflowers2.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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