 | Quandary Pk (14,265) from Colorado 9. | |
 | Near the beginning of the trail. The peak is just visible from here. | |
 | Looking up the valley holding the Monte Cristo River and Blue Lakes to the south of Quandary. | |
 | The Blue Lakes. | |
 | A pika on a rock. | |
 | A view of the peak from 13,000 feet. | |
 | A ptarmigan camouflaged in the rocks. | |
 | Ptarmigan. | |
 | Snowpack near the summit. | |
 | The final summit push. | |
 | Mocha the mountain dog at the summit. | |
 | People at the summit. | |
 | A valley with unnamed lakes to the north of Quandary. | |
 | Self-portrait at the summit of my first 14er. | |
 | Looking southwest from the summit. This is a great view many Sawatch 14ers. The broad mountain on the horizon (center) is Mt Massive (14,421). Halfway between Mt Massive and the left edge of the image, and also on the horizon, is Mt Elbert (14,433). Halfway again between Mt Elbert and the left edge of the image (and also on the horizon) is La Plata Pk (14,336). Finally, right near the left edge of the picture on the horizon is Mt Oxford (14,153). | |
 | Looking west from the summit. The highest point on the distant horizon (just right of center) is Mt of the Holy Cross (14,005). | |
 | Looking south at the South Park valley. | |
 | The summit looking east. | |
 | Me with Mt Lincoln (14,286, center), Mt Bross (14,172, just visible to the left of Lincoln), and Mt Democrat (14,148, up and right of my head) in the background. Little did I know that four weeks later I would hike up the valley in front of Lincoln to the saddle just above my head on my way to the summit of Democrat from Montgomery Reservoir. | |
 | The summit benchmark. | |
 | Bross, Lincoln, and Democrat without me in the picture. | |
 | Torreys Pk (14,267) and Grays Pk (14,270) to the northeast (zoomed in). I would summit both of them 15 days later. | |
 | View to the northeast (zoomed in). Mt Bierstadt (14,060) is in the center, with Mt Evans (14,264) just behind it and to the right. If you view the large version of this image, you can see the Meyer-Womble Observatory on Mt Evans. | |
 | Summit shelter. | |
 | Mocha the dog. | |
 | Starting down from the summit. | |
 | Back at the trailhead. One down, 54 to go... | |
 | Quandary Pk from Hoosier Pass on Colorado 9. |
