Beautiful sunny 70 degree day at Arapahoe Basin. I had driven up to hike with my friend Rosie. We have spend many, many years skiing at the basin in the winter. Most of the area is at or above treeline, so the views are spectacular.
We hiked up a beautiful trail that winds up the mountain across many runs that we ski on in the winter. Here is a field of fireweed on the run called Exhibition.
Rosie and I in front of Black Mountain Lodge at midway. We ate our lunch here. Higher up the mountain a view to the north of Loveland Pass and Black Mountain Lodge in the center.
Asters, northern fairy candelabra, and artic gentian. Rosie in a boulder field.
Small lake near the top. The view from a new warming hut they are building in the spot where there used to be midway unloading station on the old lift.
A new feature is the Via Ferrata, which means iron trail is a route up the rocks on the East Wall built with rebar steps and railings. You need a guide to go up it. The trail starts here and goes across the scree field to the base of the first vertical rock band, and the via starts there going straight up. It is a new feature at the basin. Blue gentian with a open flower in front and a bud in the back. Fireweed, artic gentian, and colorful dead trees.
Blue gentian, pearly everlastings with a lone fireweed and a butterfly posing on a rock for us. Rosie in another boulder field. In the winter all these rocks are covered with snow.
A small stream in a meadow. On the way down, through the same field of fireweed, looking sown at the base area.
The trail meandered through the subalpine trees.The trail meandered through the subalpine trees.
I drove over the continental divide is at the top of Loveland pass.
This is a vintage photo of Rosie and I skiing in 1989.
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