[vladekad]

Ok so some of you are saying enough already.

Day 2 in RNMP was a hiking day, after a morning breakfast of french toast, we packed up some ham sandwiches and drinks in the cooler and took off to see the park. Today we are on the east side with our first destination being Nymph Lake. Nymph is one of four lakes you can easily hike to on one trip So it is first, Nymph is at 9,475 ft and the other lakes are higher

Following Nymph Lake is Dream Lake, a beautiful Lake set back, larger than at first glance by then your at 9,900 ft and still going up, but lots of room to sit back and watch the clouds go bye. We went up and on to Emerald Lake, the third lake along today's hike sits close to Hallett Peak and Flattop Mountain. The mountain scenery before you is immense you end up just over 10,000 ft then get to go back down. Going back down is always good. For a few pics see below, for the whole trip see the link

Slideshow of pictures, photos, and videos, from webshots



(Nymph Lake) above Dream Lake below





NO views like that in North Texas

[bomondus]

Day 3 was travel across the park day. I previewed this day from the park while there.

Rocky Mountain drive across the park

Before Rocky Mountain National Park was even established, Old Fall River Road was the way throught the Rockies. A 9 mile drive on gravel road begins at the Endovalley Picnic Area, and ends up emerging at the Alpine Visitors Center on Trail Ridge Road some 11,000 ft up.



Some neat stops along the way include Chasm Falls


and just about every other place, by the end of the ride it was time to have lunch along the colorado river, more on that next

[Erwtbimp]

After the busy visitor Center rest more pictures ( if just starting to read this, start at the bottom of the post for earlier days)





We then continued west toward Grand Lake. Along the way we stopped lunch and a brief hike up the Colorado river, its just a mountain stream here, real pretty back here



A nice trail takes you along its banks into Moose territory, saw lots of signs of moose but nothing but this young bird



We continued on to a falls hike later that day that is descibed in another post.

But did see some Elk, Moose and Deer along the way back



more later

[AndrewBoss]

RMNP is beautiful, I got married there last month!

[JennaJJxoxoxo]

I saw your pictures, how neat, what Lake was the cerimony at?
At first I thought it was Bear Lake or Sprague Lake but no

I also noted you hit a number of parks along the way back wow.

Can I ask how far you ended up driving?

Which was your favorite park? I still can't decide between Glacier and RMNP, so my new theory is everyone should see both and you have so....

[usaneisfiecup]

I saw your pictures, how neat, what Lake was the cerimony at?
At first I thought it was Bear Lake or Sprague Lake but no

I also noted you hit a number of parks along the way back wow.

Can I ask how far you ended up driving?

Which was your favorite park? I still can't decide between Glacier and RMNP, so my new theory is everyone should see both and you have so....

The ceremony was at Sprague Lake.

Out of all the places I went to, my favorites were Glacier, Arches (but only if you do fiery furnace), and Zion. Although Canyonlands was pretty cool as well (and not nearly as crowded as arches)

I think in total we took about a month - 6 nights in Estes Park for wedding-related stuff, and then 3 weeks traveling. We drove almost 9000 miles in total

[Carfanate]

Sprague Lake was our first acclimation to high altitude "hike" and is a real neat spot, as your pictures reflect, it was a busy place.
RMNP was a neat park we spent 5 days there and needed more

here's one more of Sprague from when we were there



Glacier is a special place, if you look I posted a trip report in this forum,