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            McIntosh Lake Park loop trail; different vantage west. This is pretty much the end of the park, we are on the north-west part of the McIntosh Lake Recreation loop. The park is a pretty sketchy over here but this is an unshown view south of McIntosh/Lohr Agricultural Museum. Beyond the really green pasture is Hygiene, Colorado. I thought that I'd add this shot as a fill in. This is a great place for that extended walk you were supposed to take. Beach blanket and sandwich time at Mac under the Rockies. I had to take advantage of any good sky day around McIntosh but this is not likely to last very darn long. The day might be fleeting. The entire path loops around the lake and is 3.5 miles. There are always people walking the loop but I came over to this spot for another reason. The McIntosh Agricultural Museum is accessible from the north-east side of the loop path. Lake Shore Drive is in town while the west side is just out of town. We actually walked the museum but was curious about the path that connected the Ag Museum to the loop. We followed the lake trail toward the south-west to scope the path out and caught this on the way back. Boy, Longmonters sure use their parks! There was still plenty of space for the town folk to exercise and to settle in for a spell.

The mountain next to the tree (a lesser one) is Copeland and right, the flat in the foothills (darker hills) is Coffin Top. Right and behind is wide Mahana (its east slope was hollowed out as the Ice Age glaciers melted) on the Divide. It must have been enormous originally. It hides Isolation Peak left and behind. It's an awesome view if you are on the Divide near Tanima... but it is pretty well isolated otherwise. Moomah glacier below that if Fox melting hasn't melted it yet. Jack Moomah was the first RMNP ranger. My granny, Alice Kiteley knew him. Next right is pointy Mt Allice, yep, and starts the long slope up to Meeker and Flat-topped Longs Peak. Rocky Mountain National Park north includes Copeland. Mount Lady Washington is the bump on the north slope down to the Estes Park Valley. The two bumps on the right are the Twin Sisters. Hard to get lost around here if you can spot the Divide. Our feet will be dry when all Florida gets wet. Thanks fossils and your fossils.

Even though the trail down Mount Meeker is snow free, sleet and snow in the Rockies rolled in around Longs Peak and are poised to start refill the ski run/cow trail down Mount Meeker, the pointy mountain. Well the scientists said the weather would be more violent as the climate warmed: we have already arrived with Antarctica melting. I expect that the Fox Media advertising won't be able to do its usual job of lying, especially if the water is up around your knees, or 14 feet up as in some Detroit streets. Let's hope their believers (the denyers) get whacked first! Flood, drought, fire, hail, tornadoes, hurricanes: pick your poison but kiss your Florida goodbye. At least we got to send another power storm out east. Keep an eye out for it. This spring arrived with Thor's hammer a-swinging and kept swinging through the summer. We had Arapahoe Basin ski area will open into June. Of course, if you want to play: drive up, find snow and play your favorite sport but if that sport involves smoking, it better not be on federal land. That's usually true though August.

Taken on: August 24, 2014

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