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In the middle of Rocky Mountain National Park, you’ll find the Alpine Ridge Visitors Center. From here, you start a very short hike (just 0.3 miles) that climbs 200 vertical feet in 225 stone steps, leading to this amazing viewpoint. We arrived long before sunrise, and I made the quick hike in the dark. It was a rather long wait for the sun to rise, and it was quite cold and very windy at the top. My daughter, being a true champion, opted to wait in the warmth and comfort of the car. We talked via two-way radio until she finally decided she had waited long enough and ran up the 225 steps.
The long wait in the cold was well worth it once the sun rose and illuminated the foreground and mountains. There were just enough clouds to turn an amazing yellow color, and the high alpine tundra was bathed in soft yellow light. This image was taken at the height of fall in the Rockies, and at 12,000 feet, you can almost feel the warm light breaking through the cold night in the image.
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