Ptarmigan Lake Trail July 3, 2016 Three week change in weather and trail conditions. No snow and a carpet of Alpine Wildflowers Got on the trail about 8 am to cloudy and cool weather. By the time I got to the first pot hole lake in the upper meadow, the […]
Felix Canyon, Bozeman Montana Photo Essay One Bored on a Sunday Morning we ended up Felix Canyon. Spring is a colorful time in the Rockies. Everything was alive, Sandhill Cranes, Deer, Cedar waxwings, with mountain sides of flowers. […]
Mount Yale Hike, June 25, 2016 Mount Yale is as beautiful as it is hard to hike. As steps past the scenery rolls up the mountain in a broad expanses of mountain ranges and valley floors as far as sight allows. After the steep climb of switch back above tree line you reach a saddle […]
Ptarmigan Lake Trail is 12.8 miles up Cottonwood Pass from Buena Vista. Ptarmigan Lake Trail is normally a 6 mile in and out Hike With snow levels being around waist deep in spots, once I cross the Creek and climbed to the top a ridge in the sun for a half mile of […]
