Foreword
At 7:45 p.m. on Sunday, July 25, 1993, I sauntered down the hill from Shelf Lake at 11,200 feet above sea level in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. I was headed to ponds of water in the alpine tundra that would reflect the west face of Longs Peak when it turned orange at sunset. It was day four of a weeklong expedition into the park’s Tyndall, Chaos, Loch Vale, and Glacier gorges with three “sherpas,” Jon, Greg, and Jim. At the end of day seven, we would have backpacked 45 miles, gained and lost 16,000 feet in elevation, and photographed 16 subalpine and alpine lakes. The boys each carried 70 pounds of food, tents, sleeping bags, and clothing, and I carried 65 pounds of large format 4x5 camera equipment.
I had seen the ponds ...
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