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Wildlife is abundant in the Colorado foothills. Here, an elk herd paws for winter forage near a home's deck and a main road. | |
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| An "upslope", or a storm backing into the foothills from the
east, creeps up the valleys of the Beaver Brook Watershed, a key target for
preservation of Clear Creek Open Space and of M.A.L.T. If the upslope isn't strong, the foothills might bask in the sun while the Denver metro area has quarter-mile visibility. |
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| Colorado is of course home to many of the highest peaks in the Lower 48. Two of its famous 14ers, Crestone Peak and Crestone Needle of the Sangre de Cristo Range, are visible in the photo above, taken on the summit of nearby Pico Asilado. Our group summitted Crestone Needle the day before. The small peak to the Needle's right is Broken Hand, which was Pete Helseth's 100th summit over 13,000'. Photo of him above as well as the one right were taken by Kenny LaGreca. Disclaimer: Kenny has several times as many summits checked off his list as Pete does! In the skiing shot below, note the marks of Pete's tracks just above his head from the first jump in this series, taken at the end of a week that brought 42" new snow to a favorite spot "in-bounds" at a Colorado ski area. |  |
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And if you get tired of the mountains, there's a city a half-hour down the hill. On the left, Team Colorado Avalanche Captain Joe Sakic brings Denver its first major sports championship, hockey's Stanley Cup. On the right, John Elway shows off the NFL's Lombardi Trophy a couple of years later. Both photos taken downtown on Denver's 17th Street. Click here to see pictures enlarged. |
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