Hiking to Dyson Ice Falls and Green Mountain 📷

in #photography7 years ago (edited)

Got to enjoy a fun day on what we thought would be an easy day of hiking/snowshoeing, but it turned out to be farther than expect, deeper snow than expected and harder elevation than expected. Despite all that, we had a fun day in the wilderness.

So, this was just before the winter gates closed the highway due to snow, so it won't reopen till April now. However, we got to get to a new unexplored area and check out the scenery.

Here you can see the little falls, which we did some simple ice climbing at with my hammock screwed into the ice to relax in. SWEET!

Note: Click any images to view large versions!

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I have to say, I'm always looking for new and unique places to hang my hammock and enjoy a few minutes and this was a pretty cool spot (pun indended!). :)
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So, with some time to wait for each other to climb the ice, the hammock was perfect companion. haha
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The water was visibly flowing under the ice, so there was pretty limited 'safe' ice to climb on but just enough for my buddy to try out some new ice gear and enough time to still get out on the rest of our hike.
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My feet and view, and although I couldn't belayed from this hammock station, no belay was neccessary for such a short waterfall. Just a few anchors was good enough.
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Once back out, we headed up to Green Mountain summit and enjoyed the long views of the front range and the snow topped peaks.
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Lots of steep rocks to climb and view from at a spot, called, "The Castle" which would certainly be better to be at in the summer lying in the sun, then the windy cold winter kicking in.
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Heading down, you cna see a nice ridge of rock on the summit of Green Mountain, which we had a fire and hot lunch just down in some fo the rock outcroppings. it was still windy and cold though, but the fire helped and I sure can't complain about a hot meal of roast beef, mashed potatoes and yorkshires. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of it, totally forget our fingers were freezing without the fire nearby from the wind.
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So, we headed down a new gully to hopefully shortcut the return home and started hiking through the forest down below, getting an odd feeling animals in the area. Thankfully, they had all scattered already when we came across this large wolf kill, of which looks like a moose, as it was BIG.

There were packed down tracks and wolf dinner spots spread all around and everything was still fresh, not even frozen so the wolves must have still been in the the area but keeping distance from us humans. At this point, we picked up our pace, as we didn't need to be in that area any longer with dusk only an hour away.
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From there we headed out, crossed pass the waterfall once again back on the rest of the return trail. Another change for a panorama photo and homeward bound from there.
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I hope you enjoyed the photos, story and panoramas, its been quite a while since I was able to post and have had many other great adventures to write about since as well!

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Wow, amazing photography and adventure. Watch out for them wolves.

Thanks mate, as much as I'd love to see wolves in the wild, I definitely DO NOT want to encounter them at a kill site.!

@unipsycho sir...
Such a wonderful and interesting photograpy collection...
I'm realy like this post...
Realy fun and enjoy...
Wel done sir...

thanks dini1, I'm glad you liked it, was a my pleasure to share some photos.

Nice pictures. I am so so jealous!!

Thanks @unipsycho for sharing the post with all of us

 Hiking to Dyson Ice Falls and Green Mountain

Wow !! Seems like an adventurous day you had there lots of interesting views and some Breathtaking ones for sure !!! 

Must have been an incredible experience that you will cherish for life.

From climbing the ice to enjoying in the  hammock  you did everything and lived every moment with joy and adventurous feeling.... The temperature look's freezing cold out there have fun but also take care along with it and i don't think i need to say that the pictures were awesome as they are way beyond amazing level it was Just WOW Feeling

Thanks again for sharing 

have a great day ahead

Cheers. 

thanks so much mkmohit, very nice thoughts and comment, it was a great (among many for me) to cherish in the mountains and I'm always so appreciative to be able to do so. Take care yourself!

Great to see your scenic update today!! A great adventure was had! Thanks a ton for getting AutoSteem back online a few days ago.

You are very welcome, and I am very glad to have autosteem running again as well. I missed it for all my keyword news and photo viewing, nice to have that back running.

amazing photos.
AND your stuff seems to be working again. i love it 👍

thanks a lot, and yes, Autosteem is back operational. Sorry for the delay!

np man. at one point i thought you gave up! thanks for putting it back up.

@unipsycho,
Frozen waterfalls and amazing photography of your wonderful hiking! I feel crazy as always! Awesome!

Cheers~

thanks the guru, its been awhile but great to share some photos again.

Great Shots!
Definitely a good idea to leave before sundown.
Thanks for sharing this awesome post and steem on :)

ya, it was eerie enough in that area, at night, it'd likely be terrifying.

The Ice climbing and hiking must be cold-numbing. I'm not even sure if I can survive being out that long. ^^

I enjoyed the view and the photos and it feels like I'm traveling with you. :)

That's cool, (see what I did there) glad you enjoy coming along for these adventures, from your warm screen. I'll bear the cold for the both of us then!

Great camera clicks under the snow condition. Amazing looks indeed. Nice fun there.

thanks kingsberry, appreciate the comment on the captures!

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