Tuesday, August 14, 2012

PIKE

Pike’s Peak, another one of Colorado’s 14’s, or mountains that reach above fourteen thousand feet of elevation.

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The air is a bit thin here at the summit. Note that Poco is showing some anxiety in the rareified air.

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Many twists and turns as we climb and climb for miles.

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We drove up out of the trees into the alpine tundra.

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Soon we drove into the zone where the air is so thin that nothing grows and just under the surface there is permafrost.100_3297

Clever sign that we just had to photograph.

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