I can't say that I'd really recommend this place to anyone unless they like dodging bullets from teens and seeing their leftover garbage. But I happened to have gone up there just to take a look around and have two shots worth sharing. There are alot of these cool rock formations. But there are equally cool ones where you don't hear guns popping. Rebel XT, 70-300IS.
That rock formation reminds me of the rock formations in the Mojave Desert at Joshua Tree National Park in southern Cal! Cool!
Your Pasque flower shot is very nice, I like them when they are just starting to show up on short stems like these. I noticed the first blooms on my property here in Woodland Park about 5 days ago, once the snow melted.
The conglomeration in the first shot is very cool, nice comp. The paque shot is very nice, too.
Hey, Todd, the most I have ever seen were in Lair O' The Bear park on the road from Morrison to Evergreen. They are everywhere once you get up a bit on the trails. I even found some last month in Daniels Park in the south Metro area.
Another area where I think you could find a fair number of pasques would be the top of White Ranch Open Space in Jefferson County and guessing from this group found on Mount Herman, I'd expect to find them now on the Rampart Range Road above Woodland Park by the turn to the reservoir too.
Great shots, Mel, equally so. Ive only been up the road once and i thought it was great--course i didnt have to dodge any bullets.
I don't know if its the season, the weekend or what, but I saw three groups of teens pulled off in various spots shooting. I don't remember the road being like that the last time I had gone up there, but it must have been a dozen years or more. Since I couldn't see where they were or where they were pointing at times, it was a little unnerving to just hear the shooting. Also there were places beyond the west trailhead for Mt. Herman where it appeared that trees were used as target backers to the point the tree had been cut down by bullets. They were clearly not cut down by a saw and did not look like they were cut by an axe. Some of these trees were along ridge lines, not in closed valleys. I wish I'd taken some photos of these things.
I do shoot and am not scared of guns. But it is a bit unsettling in areas like this where the shooting is completely unsupervised and you do not know whether the shooters are aware of those around them.
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10 repliesYour Pasque flower shot is very nice, I like them when they are just starting to show up on short stems like these. I noticed the first blooms on my property here in Woodland Park about 5 days ago, once the snow melted.
Hey, Todd, the most I have ever seen were in Lair O' The Bear park on the road from Morrison to Evergreen. They are everywhere once you get up a bit on the trails. I even found some last month in Daniels Park in the south Metro area.
Another area where I think you could find a fair number of pasques would be the top of White Ranch Open Space in Jefferson County and guessing from this group found on Mount Herman, I'd expect to find them now on the Rampart Range Road above Woodland Park by the turn to the reservoir too.
I don't know if its the season, the weekend or what, but I saw three groups of teens pulled off in various spots shooting. I don't remember the road being like that the last time I had gone up there, but it must have been a dozen years or more. Since I couldn't see where they were or where they were pointing at times, it was a little unnerving to just hear the shooting. Also there were places beyond the west trailhead for Mt. Herman where it appeared that trees were used as target backers to the point the tree had been cut down by bullets. They were clearly not cut down by a saw and did not look like they were cut by an axe. Some of these trees were along ridge lines, not in closed valleys. I wish I'd taken some photos of these things.
I do shoot and am not scared of guns. But it is a bit unsettling in areas like this where the shooting is completely unsupervised and you do not know whether the shooters are aware of those around them.