Sunday Mar 28, 2010 at 21:51
Spring Snow
This blog has been as bleak and barren as a harsh winter for over two months now.
Photography has been firmly in mind but my trips outdoors have not really materialized. Partly that’s the weather. Partly it’s work (it’s been busy…) and partly it’s been because I’ve been spending a high proportion of spare time hacking my way through TPE for iPhone, now happily on the cusp of being submitted to our friends at Apple.
However, with the spring storms very much in evidence the past few days, I got out to Rocky Mountain National Park last weekend for a quick morning snowshoe up to Dream Lake the day after a large dump of snow.
After the storm (click image for larger view)
Things didn’t quite go to plan. First off, I set my alarm thirty minutes too late. No idea what I was thinking, as I’d planned everything out, of course. Must have been the wine.
If it hadn’t been for Error #2, I would still have made it in time, just. Heading for the usual spot, Dream Lake, I followed the trail up to Nymph Lake and crossed over to the North. The trail heads up to the north west before cutting back south up the side of a steep slope and turning west again to Dream Lake.
Except not this time. It turned out that the usual trail was not open in winter this year (it has been the previous three years that I’ve been here). Instead, I should have headed straight west from the south side of Nymph Lake – a much more direct route, as I later discovered (an hour after sun-up). Nonetheless, once I’d reach the point of giving up on getting a sunrise shot at Dream, I explored some other options around Nymph Lake.
I think this one turned out OK:
Nymph Lake Trail (click image for larger view)
Big changes ahead for me in the coming days and weeks (more of which later), but, with luck, I’m going to have some significant time to dedicated to photography over the next couple of months, so I hope there’ll be more to post.
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Stephen · Sunday, March 28, 2010, 21:51 · Permalink
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