The Loch, RMNP

Awesome. I can almost hear that snow crunch in the first shot with every step. Cool looking sastrugi!

Preeb wrote in post #13489737
Really nice images. I can't even pick a favorite from the 3 - all are spectacular.

Loch Vale and Glacier Gorge are absolutely stunning locations (don't go without a good wide angle lens - super wide doesn't hurt), but I've never braved them in winter. I've been there in late May when you had to flounder through hip deep, wet snow to get to Black Lake, and we got periodically disoriented and thoroughly exhausted bushwhacking (the trail was impossible to follow under so much snow) from Loch Vale to Bear Lake, but winter is too cold up there for this wimp.

The trails are pretty well snow-packed now. With proper layering, it's really not to bad! Snowshoeing weather is upon us.

When I'm volunteering up in RMNP, I wear my Rocky boots with 1400g of Thinsulate insulation and my feet stay toasty warm.

KoalaCowboy wrote in post #13495304
The trails are pretty well snow-packed now. With proper layering, it's really not to bad! Snowshoeing weather is upon us.

When I'm volunteering up in RMNP, I wear my Rocky boots with 1400g of Thinsulate insulation and my feet stay toasty warm.

Despite the fact that I grew up in Minnesota, lived for a decade in Montana, and now almost 40 years in Colorado, I'm not a snow person. Which might explain the fact that my wife and I are in the process of relocating to the Out Islands of the Bahamas.

Great series! I love RMNP in winter! The crowds are gone (they are all on I-70 sitting in traffic...fools! ) and it opens up so many different possibilities. It's why my wife and I always get an annual pass and make the short trip up from the metro area a few times a year.