Fall, where art thou?
After work on Friday, I drove up to the mountains to find some Fall Colors. Last year at this time, Monitor Pass was at full peak for color. This year, not so much. It was still very green everywhere. We had a very warm and hot September here, and thus the leaves have not yet started to turn yet, but I was hoping Monitor Pass would have a bit more color as that area usually turns first. It didn’t. Well, they say it is supposed to really cool off this week, so by next weekend it should hopefully be much better.
When I arrived at the Aspen grove at the top of the pass, I found a large group (or two) of campers. They had their four wheelers all lined up and were making lots of obnoxious noise. Argh! Firstly, I think it is a strange place to be camping, there is not much around here (but if they’re just there to tear up all the trails with their four wheelers, I guess that makes sense – argh again!). Secondly, whenever I have been up here before, I have never seen very many people here. Maybe one or two (at the most) other people camping is all I have seen. Thirdly, they were completely blocking the road where I wanted to go! I could not drive around them where I wanted, and they were being too obnoxious and likely drunk, so I didn’t want to walk right through their camp. Instead, I made my way around to the other side of the grove. I found this scene with the moon rising over the trees and glowing in the late evening light. These trees had some yellow colors starting to show, but still were mostly green.
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