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Touring The Tundra

Rocky Mountain National Park

    (Trail Ridge Road)

 

I Love being High…

In Altitude that is.

It gives one a different perspective looking at life when you are over a couple of miles up into the sky.

 

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Seems something is missing too.

There are very few trees up here.  We’re again above the tree line, driving across the highest major highway in North America, topping out at 12,183 feet above sea level.

 

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But we found wildlife!

 

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Seems this is where all those herds of elk have been hanging out.

 

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Including this group of bucks, each with their own little defined circle of grass.

 

 

 

 

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Massive barren rocks.

 

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A single

happy tree.