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Obstructions

            I am wrapping the Rock Creek mountain trickle series from this autumn. The creek is a target-rich venue and I wandered further up stream on my second trek with my normal-zoon lens. This creek provides a mass of captures. Boy, my earlier trip with eDDie up behind Allenspark to Rock Creek really paid off. So well in fact, I decided to return and avoid weekend campers. Conversely, our fall down here on the flats was slow to arrive and largely a bust. Here is another from my stash. 

I could get the bottoms of my feet soaked by wading across although scofflaws have downed several trees for crossings and setting up camps on the opposite side. Failed log bridges are in the stream. Stream flow is closer to a trickle and it's trout population might suspect although I ought to try it out in a larger holding pocket of water. I maneuvered to the right spot in order to compose this shot. I used my longer zoom last time I was in this particular spot. Here, rocks in the stream have been working on their mossy insulation to shelter from the cold. I wonder how many different mosses inhabit this rock? I liked the tones in the shot. Although I was using the monopod, 1/10th of a second is a still dicey.

I found more action with my normal-zoom on this punk stream while just escaping winter, should Colorado get one this year. Careful where you step on the oncoming snow, try to follow the 4WD road off to the side. It will be hard to detect the footing until too late. Egad, I have skied in a Colorado September before but this was a week into October. It's looking more like the year I fished up on James Creek in November and got caught one of my best German browns and one of my best fly fishing experiences.  

Autumn falls early up here. It can snow on any day of the year and has in the past. I remember a July snow in Wild Basin one canyon over. It will always defy the Koch Brudders Mafia and their push to pocket anti-global warming presidential and congressional candidates who currently want to protect their SCROTUS until the next president. Bernie? It will take some time for the populace to understand more people work for renewables than the fossil fool industry, sheesh. Reality is creeping up on them and their paid Republican candidate staff. I wonder what could be torn from this environment? Perhaps they could recover some new lead for Flint pipes. True renewable energy will cost us much less in the long run. Coal-fired plants must be continually fed while wind and solar production can be ignored. Fortunately, we finally got a pass from the Kochsters and sent some nasty storms to the midwest. Unfortunately, the midwesterners didn't handle them as graciously as the Camshaft after SB50. 

Actually, Rock Creek flows down through Ferncliff instead of toward Allenspark. The road back to Allenspark follows the hillside while Ferncliff is downhill. There are a large number of photo and fly dabbling up this creek (pronounced crick in the Rockies) and for me, it seemed I was the one-legged man in the trouser factory syndrome. As I opened the captures, I know that I left shots behind no matter how I tried.

Taken on: October 7, 2015

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