Playland

On July 14, I hiked to Ptarmigan Lake near Cottonwood Pass. I had hiked to this lake before when I climbed Jones Mountain several years ago. This time instead of climbing Jones Mountain, hiked a part of Gladstone Ridge. I didn’t go to the highest point as it was too far with too many ups and downs, but I got to a nice high point on the ridge above Ptarmigan Lake. Here are the pictures.

Ptarmigan Lake & Jones Mountain

Gladstone Ridge

Looking at the Continental Divide

Mt. Princeton

Mt. Yale

Me on Gladstone Ridge.  Jones Mountain in the center

me

Mt Antero, Mt. Shavano, Mt Tabeguache, & me

The small ponds below Ptarmigan Lake

Jones Mountain & Ptarmigan Lake

Ptarmigan Lake

Chapter and Verse

Here are a few pictures from a hike on the Colorado Trail between Rolling Creek Trailhead near Bailey and Tramway Creek. The hike took place on June 30, 2019.

A view in a meadow

Olorado Tra

Columbine

A view through the trees

Doing What I Can

As always as of late, I’m behind on my posts. I will keep it simple. This hike took place on Memorial Day this year. I did an out and back on the Colorado Trail from the South Platte River Trailhead. I did approximately 13 miles round trip. This section of trail goes through a part of the infamous Hayman Fire Burn Scar. Here are the pictures.

South Platte River near the trailhead

Hayman Fire Burn Scar

Colorado Trail through the Hayman Fire Burn Scar

Long Scraggy Peak on the left. Pikes Peak in the distance

View from the Chair Rocks Overlook

Rocks

Enjoying the overlook

Cactus

Returning to the Hayman Fire Burn Scar

Hayman Fire Burn Scar and the Colorado Trail

South Platte River and the bridge to the Trailhead

Sunrise, Sunset

Rather than end my China trip posts from February with the Monkey Island pictures, I am going to end it with pictures from one of the most relaxing days I spent on Hainan. We got up for sunrise. We went for a boat ride. At the end of the day, we watched sunset. Here are the pictures from this simple day.

Sunrise at Yalong Bay

Sunrise at Yalong Bay

Sunrise at Yalong Bay

Sunrise at Yalong Bay

Enjoying the morning

Looking up at the dragon on top of the mountain.  (Yalong Bay Tropical Paradise Forest Park)

Boat ride

Out on Yalong Bay

Out on Yalong Bay

Someone jumping our wake

We went out to a reef.  The boat had a glass bottom.

Playing around while waiting on sunset

Hi

Sunset

Peeking at the camera

Sunset

The Curse of Monkey Island

Near the end of my trip to Hainan in China this past February, we took a tour bus to Monkey Island and Sanya Li and Miao Village. The first stop on the tour was Monkey Island. You take a cable car into the monkey reserve. The reserve has approximately 2,000 macaque monkeys. A lot of them are free to run around, but they do have shows using trained monkeys. The monkeys in the shows didn’t seem very happy. The monkeys that were free were happy. Imagine that.

View of a Fishing Village from a cable car that took us to Monkey Island

View from the Cable Car

Mama monkey her kid

The King Monkey

A couple of little ones

Watching the monkeys

A monkey getting a massage

Keeping an eye on each other

Monkey on a sign

On a ferry at the fishing village

After Monkey Island, the tour moved to Sanya Li and Miao Village. The Village was a culture center that showed off past island traditions. I was coming down with a cold that day was beginning to feel bad at the Village. Fortunately, it was last day of playing tourist.

A statue

Watching and listening to singers

Listening to the tour guide. (I have no idea what was being said)

Sanya Li and Miao Village

Teapot?

me

Watching someone hand-making something