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Big Bear Valley phlox, photographed near the Aspen Glen picnic area in mid-June 2010. There was so much in bloom, I thought it might be a garden escapee at first. To my great joy (and relief), I discovered that it is, in fact, a San Bernardino Mountains endemic. The adjacent pebble plains sported a great diversity of blooms; what a great time to be there!
My sisters and I camped at RMNP earlier in the week. When we arrived at our campsite, we had the privilege of sharing it with 3 large bull elk. They hung around and kept us company for several hours.
Rocky Mountain National Park, 2007. The Fall River seen from a bridge at Aspenglen Campground. The boulders you see here were all deposited at once, when a dam at Lawn Lake far upstream and high above this point burst in 1982. It washed out a huge gorge along the river's course in the mountain, leaving a depositional alluvial fan against the mountainside at Horseshoe Park and dropping car sized boulders from here to Estes Park. Two campers died at the campground.