Weather:  Clear Sky, few clouds.
Present were:  Mike, K7DOU; Gordon, K7HFV; Randy, KG7GI; Clint, KA7OEI; Bruce, KI7OM; Randy, N7BRP
Destination:  Meadow at end of maintained trail.
Comments:  The trail may have been pretty steep, but it was long.  It took a bit over 90 minutes for the first of us to reach the meadow.
Question of the day:  When being chased by an angry moose, it is necessary just to outrun a slower person?
Total distance:  Approx.  3.7 miles
Altitudes in feet ASL (approx):  Vechicle/parking:  6020;  Meadow above pond:  8270
Elevation gain/loss:  2252 feet, approx.
Local sunset on this date:  9:01 pm

Images (300-1500k each, .JPG):

• IMG00600 - Very small (approx 3/8" across) blue flower blooming in great abundance.
• IMG00602 - Very small (approx 3/16" across) white flower - also blooming in great abundance.
• IMG00603 - Small (approx 1/2" across) blue flower - but not the same variety as that above.
• IMG00606 - A small (approx 5/8" across) white flower.
• IMG00608r - Across the canyon, looking to the north, from one of the small "meadows" along the trail.
• IMG00611 - Up the canyon, showing Dromedary (left) and O'Sullivan (right) Peaks. (Did I identify those correctly?)  #615 is a wider view of the above.
• IMG00632r - Zoomed-in view of Dromedary Peak (?).  (Using 55-200mm zoom)  Note the alpenglow.
• IMG00634r - Same view as #615 (above) but with more alpenglow.
• IMG00637 - Clint, blocking the view.
• IMG00640 - Mike, K7DOU, inspecting the back of his eyelids.
• IMG00648r - Even more alpenglow.
• IMG00650 - Randy, N7BRP, basking in the Alpenglow.
• IMG00651.- Randy, again...
• IMG00652 - Bruce, KI7OM, in the alpenglow.
• IMG00654 - Mike, K7DOU, also in the alpenglow.
• IMG00662r - Dromedary Peak, with a ridiculous amount of alpenglow.  (No, I didn't exaggerate the color...)
• IMG00670 - A picture looking into the sun.  Don't stare at the screen for too long!  (I think that that's Bruce's head in the foreground.)
• IMG00673 - A moose (probably a cow) having had its grazing interrupted.  (This is a cropped picture with some weird brightness/color adjustments to hide the fact that it was slightly blurred due to camera movement.  An un-cropped - but still "adjusted" - version is here.)

Maps/profiles:

• Track of the hike. Estimated track of the hike - only incomplete GPS data was available, for some reason...
• Elevation profile of the hike.  Estimated elevation profile of the hike (one way.)

• These images are 300k-1500k in size, .JPG and are in chronological order.  I'm not sure why some of the later images are so large:  I may have accidentally bumped the .JPG compression up when saving them.
• No-one ever said that all of these images (or any of them) were good.  Some of them have definite focus/exposure "issues."
• EXIF data is present for most of the images, showing time, date, and precise exposure conditions.  Recent versions of Irfanview will show this in the "View->Image Information->EXIF" tab.
• Unless noted, all images taken using a Sigma SD-10 camera using the 18-50mm zoom lens.

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