Rocky Mountain Spring Inspiration and Positive Views Unlimited

I had a dream last night about being in the Rocky Mountains.  It is springtime and all creatures great and small, wise and wonderful, bright and beautiful, are just a few of the ways you can describe the wildlife you will see while you wander through the Rocky Mountains of North America.  It never ceases to amaze me how diverse our incredible country really is.  Have you ever walked around the corner of a mountain trail to find yourself gazing headlong into the eyes of a moose that knows the trail yoiu are now glued to is it's own trail and you are in it's way?  Or maybe you find yourself standing (maybe even clinging) on the edge of a precipice longingly wondering why it is that the eagle soars, seemingly, so effortlessly high above you while you find yourself, again, stuck in that place not knowing how to proceed any further or higher.  What about trying to figure out how to walk on the surface of the snow field in a pair of contraptions called snowshoes, struggling to move forward without falling when you look across the distance and see what seems to be steam rising out of a pool of water (water freezes when there is that much snow on the ground)?  Is it really possible in the middle of the mountains (real ones scaling heights of 14,000 feet) that water would not be frozen in the middle of January?  If you are among the few that have found their way to one of the unnumbered geophysically hot springs found throughout the Rocky mountains, you will have to consider youself beyond blessed while here on earth.  There are no comparisons to the majestic, towering peaks of the Rocky Mountains, about 2,000 miles in length, and extend from the Mexican frontier, up through the western United States, and on into Canada and eastern Alaska.

The Rockies include over one hundred individual mountain ranges. Major ones are the Absaroka, Bear River, Beaverhead, Big Belt, Big Horn, Bitterroots, Canadian, Clearwater, Columbia, Front, Guadalupe, Laramie, Lemhi, Lewis, Lost River, Medicine Bow, Monashee, Owyhee, Purcell, Sacramento, Salmon River, San Andres, Sangre de Cristo, Sawatch, Shoshone, Steens, Stillwater, Swan, Tetons, Unita, Wallowa, Wasatch, Wind River, Wyoming and Zuni, with the highest point in the Rockies being Mt. Elbert, located 10 miles southwest of Leadville, Colorado. It stands at 14,433 ft (4,399 meters).  Travel through these dream like places will give you the opportunity to see what looks like an indian sleeping in the distance, or is it just a range of mountains with the edges, caught at just the correct place?  Or maybe you will look across the valley to see a howling wolf silhouetted against the deep blue of the sky, or is it just another mountain peak?  Maybe you are hungry and you find youself seeing a white frying pan hanging on the side of the mountain (OK, maybe it is really a glacier).  Surely you really can't be smelling that many rotten eggs out in the wide open wilderness, rotten enough to almost make you gasp for breath?  Is that bright yellow powder on the ground a pile of powdered egg yolks?  No, you have just ventured up to an open sulfur vent.  These are just a few of the experiences you will find if you make the choice to visit The Rockies. 

I am one of the people who can claim the Rockies as my birthplace and have experienced more while growing up there than I would ever have the time to relate to you.  Maybe, with some of the stories I share with you, you will be drawn to take some extra time to create your own stories for your kids and grandkids that will have them coming back for more.  I could spend 10 lifetimes discovering vistas and panoramas I would be the only one to glimpse as these scenes are in contant flux with the movement of the clouds, the wind swinging the trees, the elk bugling for a mate, the trout sinking into a suddenly placid pool, only to discover I have also moved to glimpse another view.  Maybe you are one of those who can understand that the simple act of kicking a pebble into the stream being as significant as taking a length of lodgepole pine and using it as a lever to shift a bolder of rock to the edge of a cliff, finally watching it explode into pieces as it tries to bury itself into the rocks below, rocks that lend their own name to the entire chain of mountains called the Rockies.

Challenge yourself to create your own onf of a kind experience to share with another group of travelers.  I have been cheating you this whole time because I was given the gift of being born to thse mountains I share with you, those wildly beautiful, unimaginable, wonders, THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS!!!!