Wheels within Wheels

When we got to Estes Park, we wandered through Rocky Mountain National Park. We lucked out, because it was a “free entry” day, which saved us the $20 admission fee.

I’m ashamed to admit that it was the first time I’d seen elk in the wild. Didn’t hear much bugling, but we saw a lot of elk. This photo’s a bit fuzzy, but it’s the best one I got of the herd.

We saw several other herds, but they were all smaller (half-a-dozen or so to a couple of dozen). The closest we got was actually just outside the gates of the park – we saw these bad boys coming back from town:

Last weekend was being promoted as the time for peak color in the high country, so Marion and I decided to take advantage of it. We drove up through Boulder into Nederland, where we caught the Peak-to-Peak Highway to Estes Park.

Here are a few photos I took along the way. I tried to get thumbnails linked to full-size photos, but the WordPress implementation 1&1 uses appears to only give me a thumbnail option if I use a smaller file to begin with.

We’ve also had our first snows in the high country: