Golden Aspens on the Colorado Trail

Mark and I traveled 285 up to Kenosha Pass to hike the Colorado Trail last Saturday with the aspens at their peak. The trail gave us glorious vistas over a high mountain plain with patches of golden aspens, distant peaks, and storm clouds rolling over all so that the light on the plain was dappled dark and light.

The intermittent sunlight made the gold-green aspens glow in an almost otherworldly way—the groves looked magical with the trail winding through them almost as though we were on some kind quest to Middle Earth to visit the Elves in Valinor. As usual my camera didn’t really capture the true splendor of it all, but I try.