deva_sarasvati:
From the ground... We're going up to there.
deva_sarasvati:
The initial quarter mile is deceptively picturesque
deva_sarasvati:
Until you are above 11,000 feet and your pulse is pounding behind your eyes (maybe just me)
deva_sarasvati:
The view from about a third of the way up
deva_sarasvati:
Looking west
deva_sarasvati:
The lakes at the foot of Medicine Bow, Sugarloaf is dead center in the background
deva_sarasvati:
The climb, she is steep, my breath is so ragged at this point
deva_sarasvati:
Looking North, I think (though my thinking is fuzzy at this point)
deva_sarasvati:
"What's so weird about eating a cucumber like an apple?"
deva_sarasvati:
Deliriously happy from oxygen deprivation, probably
deva_sarasvati:
Halfway up the mountain
deva_sarasvati:
Rallying up the steep-ass scramble
deva_sarasvati:
Looking back from whence we came
deva_sarasvati:
High spirited MFAers almost at the top
deva_sarasvati:
Almost there, and still standing, still grinning
deva_sarasvati:
To the left is the peak, looks like gravel from here
deva_sarasvati:
The view from the almost-top. Good, but not yet GREAT
deva_sarasvati:
My timing is impeccable
deva_sarasvati:
A ridge at our backs (to the South, then?)
deva_sarasvati:
Climbing the peak, and ALMOST too afraid to look down
deva_sarasvati:
All the winners, at the top
deva_sarasvati:
SUCCESS!
deva_sarasvati:
The "gravel" is pretty big, close up
deva_sarasvati:
The view from the PEAK.
deva_sarasvati:
A valley of lakes
deva_sarasvati:
Proof I made it in one piece
deva_sarasvati:
poets and writers on the mountain
deva_sarasvati:
Don't pay too much attention to all those clouds rolling in...
deva_sarasvati:
And rolling in...
deva_sarasvati:
Time to begin our descent down the other side. Through SNOW.
