ronscowi1
@ronscowi1
Former factory worker, gas station attendant, and nonpartisan budget staff for Wisconsin State Legislature. Lived in Milwaukee and Madison WI. Moved to CO. Avid hiker and backpacker.
Oregon Trail wagon ruts near the National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, east of Baker OR. (Referenced in post below)
Elkhorn Mountains across Baker Valley, Oregon. (2025) View from National Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. (Cool Museum) #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
Odessa Lake, Little Matterhorn, & Notchtop Mountain, Rocky Mountain National Park. (2022) #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
Inspiration Point & Granite Lake in the Desolation Wilderness near Lake Tahoe, CA.
Short hike today on the Bumpass Hell trail (named after Kendall Vanhook Bumpass), Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA. Bumpass wanted to mine the geothermal minerals, but instead stepped in a geothermal pool & severely burned his leg (1865).
Lassen Peak (10,457’), from Manzanita Lake, Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA. #MountainMonday #BlueskyMonday
Hiking the Rubicon Trail between DL Bliss & Emerald Lake State Parks, Lake Tahoe, CA.
Bullhead, Red Rock & Fishercap Lakes, bracketed by Mt Wilbur & Mt Grinnell, from the east side of Swiftcurrent Pass, Glacier National Park. (2017) #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday (If you ignore the smoke from distant forest fires.)
Looking back at Telluride & the peaks of the Sneffels Range rising above it, from the Bear Creek Trail, Uncompahgre National Forest, CO. (2024) #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday
Our hike to Blue Lake today in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forest, CO. Great way to start the weekend.
The Gore Range from the Shrine Ridge Trail, White River National Forest, CO, near Vail Pass. (2020) #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
“This land is your land…From California to the New York Island, From the Redwood Forests to the Gulf Stream waters…” Couldn’t help but think of Woody Guthrie on this night, in this year. Not enough people know he wrote this song as a direct response to Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America.”
The Front Range, from the Raccoon Trail loop, starting from Reverend Ridge campground to Panorama Point, in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Co. Smoke from fires on the West Slope and southwestern part of the state clearly affects the view.
Chiricahua National Monument, AZ, with the Dragoon Mountains in the distance, across Sulphur Springs Valley. (2016) The Cochise Stronghold was located in the Dragoons. #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday
We’ve camped, hiked, & backpacked in Rocky Mountain National Park many times, from even before we were married. But, for some reason, we never hiked to Bierstadt Lake. Today we did.
Matia Island & the Strait of Georgia, from the top of Mt Constitution (2,409’) in Moran State Park on Orcas Island, WA. (2019) Orcas Island is one of the San Juan Islands. #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday
The Loch in Rocky Mountain National Park, with Taylor Peak (13,153’) and Taylor Glacier directly across the lake, framed by Thatchtop Mountain (12,668’) & the Sharkstooth (12,829’). #MountainMonday #BlueSkyMonday
Colorful Colorado. Photos from our last two hikes in Eldorado Canyon State Park (Friday) & Rocky Mountain National Park (Today).
Collegiate Peaks west of Buena Vista CO. (2021) Part of the Sawatch Range, with multiple 14k mountains & peaks: Mt Shavano, Tabegauche Pk, Mt Antero, Mt Princeton, Mt Yale, Mt Columbia, Mt Harvard, Missouri Mt, Mt Oxford, & Mt Belford. #MountainMonday #BlueskyMonday
Indian Peaks from our hike today, Rattlesnake Gulch trail, Eldorado Canyon State Park, CO.
North lower Crater Lake, in the James Peak Wilderness, Arapaho Roosevelt National Forest, CO. The Crater Lakes are located in a glacial cirque, just below the Continental Divide, near Rollinsville CO. #BlueskyMonday #MountainMonday