Dream Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I had the day off yesterday, so my wife and I took a drive up to Rocky Mountain National Park for a little snowshoeing. It was a nice sunny day, but the wind was howling.
We hiked up to Nymph Lake and took some photos there. At left is me standing out on the ice. I’m not really sure how thick it was, but it was thick enough that I couldn’t see all the way through the ice.
Nymph Lake was about a mile from the parking area. We decided we wanted a longer hike and wanted to see more of the park’s beauty, so we headed further up the mountain to Dream Lake. On the trail, we stumbled upon this beautiful scene. We were totally off the trail now, and were blazing through thigh deep powder. It was awesome.
Once we finally arrived at Dream Lake about another mile past Nymph Lake in deep powder, the wind was blowing 60-80 miles per hour. It was brutal. We wanted to go further to the next lake, but just couldn’t take the pounding blowing snow. So we quickly snapped off a few photos, and headed for the shelter of the trees. Here are a few of the photos we came away with.
