Today was a good day in the mountains

It was a windy day today in certain areas but in other areas it was great

Near the end of the trip we ended up getting first tracks


Liz breaking some trail. first tracks on this trail

Rocky part of the trail around 9,000ft. around 4 miles round trip alittle bit past campsite 6

We ended up turning around at this point since there was loose rocks buried under new snow would not be a good place to twist an ankle.

Into The Mountains

-Into The Mountains-
(This video has been in the works for over a year now from filming to the editing.)

Into The Mountains from Patrick Mullen on Vimeo.

Camping through all the season was a great experience always learning something new every trip or exploring the best things mountains have to offer and finding out its tough work to survive.
Last year decided to just get out and do some hiking / camping solo ended up going on 15 solo trips to new locations almost every weekend. These are some of the experiences that happened out camping in the mountains from moose at 4 a.m. to a lightning storm while camping at 11,000ft at Twin Crater Lakes.

Locations:
High Park Fire, Emmaline Lake, Twin Crater Lake, Island Lake, Timber Lake, Browns Lake, Roaring Creek, Mirror Lake, Blue Lake, Lake Agnus, Nokhu Crags, Mummy Range mts, Medicine Bow mts, Commanche Lake, Cirque Lake, Signal Mountain, Colorado, Wyoming

Gear/ Equipment
Hennessy Hammock Safari Zip / Expedition 30D Monsoon Rainfly
Gore Tex Rain Jacket / Pants / Military Bivy Cover
GoLite Shangri La3 Tent
Northface 20 degree Sleeping Bag
Big Agnes r. value 5.0 Sleeping Pad
MSR Denali Evo with 6″ Tails
Black Diamond Icon Headlamp

Music:
Led Zeppelin The Rain Song

Fire near Fort Collins Colorado 3/15/2013 11:30 p.m.

This is the view of the fire from our house

It was a interesting experience sitting by the water the wind was making waves and what I was seeing is sad but its nature just doing what she is going to do. Its sad to see people's houses get burnt down but it looked like the fire stayed near Lory State Park. Ended up stating the adventure at 8:30 p.m. and getting back to the car at 12:30a.m. and hiked 3 or 4 miles to get these photographs

The fire on the left is a tree burning and made it over exposed

Ended up parking near Overland trail and hiked to around rotary park (with the 100s of other people) The decided to hike down to the water to escape the crowds and get some better photos.

This is a single photo graph that has two images the parking lot and also the fire it was busy

The fire in this photograph is burning around Lory State Park and also some of Horsetooth mountain. The moon and Orions Belt where right above the fire in the sky