Backpacking around Telluride with Rachel this summer.  
  • Hiking up out of Telluride through a gorgeous aspen grove
  • Butterflies that happily posed for me
  • Monk's Hood
  • A split in the trail where the map showed no split... uh-oh, at least both directions look promising...
  • Ah, up at treeline at last
  • The Wilson group and Lizard's head
  • Cooking dinner
  • Looking over at the Wilson group the next morning
  • Hiking up through a high alpine meadow towards a low pass
  • Fields of flowers
  • more flowers
  • One last scree field to get to the top
  • And back down into the flowers on the other side.
  • There were plenty of mines in the mountain valleys around Telluride
  • Gorgeous Indian Paintbrush
  • The San Juans
  • More flowers, hey, they're pretty
  • A close up of Indian Paintbrush
  • among the flowers
  • Catching flowers
  • mmmm, dinner