Friday, September 26, 2014

Back to the Forest... For a short While

We’ve been driving through some pretty incredible scenery lately.  This is what it was like on the way to our next campsite on the border of a National Forest.

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     And this is what it was like once we found our place amongst the firs, pines and aspens.

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                Our attempt at a puzzle pieced panorama of the view from our windows.

Being back near the forest was pretty awesome.  Being at 8000’ elevation reminded us of how spoiled we’ve gotten with the temperatures three to four thousand feet lower.  It was a cold night.  Nothing however could ruin Nicole’s excitement with seeing these again...

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                                           MUSHROOMS!!!!!

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                                     We saw other things too.

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This is what happens when you blow on your camera lens on a very cold morning.

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              This is what happens when you don’t.

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As we mentioned, we’ve been spoiled by warmer evening temperatures at lower elevations.  So, after only one evening we moved on from our site near the forest.

NOTE:  This is the second of two posts that we uploaded today.  If you haven’t seen the previous one be sure to click the word ‘Older’ just below and to the right of this sentence.