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July 17 '13: Our campsites at the Forest Service's Olive Ridge campground
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My gravel cairn
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First meet with Steve the chipmunk
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Steve's cousin, Jimmy
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Tree growing out of a rock. How big rocks become smaller rocks.
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Steve enjoys a carrot
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Libby and Steve enjoy carrots together
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Mount Meeker, Longs Peak, and Estes Cone as seen from Lily Lake
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Rocks and trees and regolith
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Tom sketched while we walked around the lake
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Shortly after there was an unidentified lake mammal
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The best photo ever taken of Lily Lake, says me
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You're still taking photos?
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Being annoyed with photos gets you light painted
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July 18 '13: Prepping for the day's hike
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Hiking objective: Estes Cone
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Mine. No, mine.
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The mine's boiler. Probably out of cert by now.
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Wild strawberries are tasty
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20ft tall rock tree, 14kft mountain in back
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Woodpecker pair
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View from the top of Estes looking west, after 6 miles and 2200 ft of gain. Storm starting to boil up.
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Lily Lake as seen from the top of Estes Cone
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Someone else's cairn on a bit of cliff
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Hooray, we haven't yet been struck by lightning
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Made a break for it shortly after, as the lightning was close and we were likely candidates
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A rock picked up when a tree fell over
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July 19 '13: A pseudoscorpion with breakfast. Looks like a tick with crab claws, they eat other bugs.
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Breakfasting like champions, Bonnie running the fire
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I'd lichen it to a circle