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Late night bike ride 3:00A.M. enjoying life and the nice weather
Taking a break
3:00A.M. night bike
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Tag Archives: Mountains
The Storm
This storm rolled in from the west with high winds and blowing snow location was near Sleeping Elephant
Black and white mountains
Black and white late afternoon light on this rock cliff
The after math of the High Park Fire
High Park Fire burn area Pingree Park
High Park fire burn area
Not all has been lost
High Park Fire burn area lager scale view from Pingree Park Colorado
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
Into the mountains.
Location: Signal Mountain Colorado
Camera: Canon 40D
Lens 50mm: 1.8f.
Shutter Speed: 1/125
Aperture: 9f. stop
Iso 160
Date Time : 3/10/2013 – 6:13 PM
Today was a good day to hike a mountain ended up leaving the house around 1 p.m. and decided to find a trail with less people around ended up heading up to Glen Haven and checked out Signal Mountain trail ended up hiking 4 miles round trip and found this great place to relax and enjoy the sunshine without dealing with the high winds in town. This was a great mini trip as always arriving back home to only pick another spot to see next weekend.
This will be a good year. :)
This photo was taken one mile past Blue Lake hiking out to the West Branch Trail to get up to island lake in the Rawah Wilderness
Explore More.
This morning was great since I decided to hike up to the top of this cliff right in back of my camping spot. It was a cold morning but that warm sunshine was worth all the effort to get to the top. Life is short explore more
Afternoon storms in the mountains
These mountains are out in Fair Play Colorado Watching the afternoon storm clouds.
Solo adventure
Solo Adventure to the summit. Mt. Crosier 9,280 ft. 8 miles roundtrip. 10 f Degrees Wind 15-35 mph Decided to camp on top of a mountain ended up finding a spot with a rock wall to block most of the wind that did not stop all night. Tied the rain fly to two different logs to help retain the fly from flying away and using trekking poles to help keep the fly stable. Also collected two flat rocks to block the wind from the open sides of the hammock. All in all it was a great experience. Every time I go outside I learn a small detail I could make better next time. Thats what survival is about making the right decisions and the ability to withstand what nature throws in your path.