A few weeks ago I spent some time up at a couple of the mountain passes on the Alpine Loop in SW Colorado. It's a 4x4 loop road that is left from old mining roads. Most of the passes are over 12,000 feet up, so they were great area's for me to acclimate from Sea Level before I started backpacking up that high.
This one is called Cinnamon Pass. It's a fun one, it doesn't quite have the dramatic views of some of the others so it doesn't get as much traffic, but the views for me were still grand. There was a bit of old mining gear and buildings left over from the mining days 120 years ago, so that made for great hiking locations during the day.
While I was there, there was a forecast for some smaller aurora activity. With Northern Lights, you just never know what it's going to do. Will it be larger then forecasted, smaller then forecasted or what. In this case it matched the KP 4 prediction. So it wasn't huge, but it was cool to see.
This is pointed North to capture any Northern Lights that showed up. The North end of the Milky Way is always weaker then the core, but I was pretty happy with how it showed up in images.
Nikon D850
Sigma 14mm f1.8
20 secs
ISO 2000
f1.8
All comments are welcome,
Jim
This one is called Cinnamon Pass. It's a fun one, it doesn't quite have the dramatic views of some of the others so it doesn't get as much traffic, but the views for me were still grand. There was a bit of old mining gear and buildings left over from the mining days 120 years ago, so that made for great hiking locations during the day.
While I was there, there was a forecast for some smaller aurora activity. With Northern Lights, you just never know what it's going to do. Will it be larger then forecasted, smaller then forecasted or what. In this case it matched the KP 4 prediction. So it wasn't huge, but it was cool to see.
This is pointed North to capture any Northern Lights that showed up. The North end of the Milky Way is always weaker then the core, but I was pretty happy with how it showed up in images.
Nikon D850
Sigma 14mm f1.8
20 secs
ISO 2000
f1.8
All comments are welcome,
Jim
