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Herman Gulch, Wild Flowers, Clear Creek Co., Colorado, July 6, 2014
The long and strenuous hike up the Herman Gulch Trail is a test of endurance, at least for an older hiker with a backpack full of camera gear. The trailhead starts right off of I-70 just a few miles east of the Eisenhower Tunnels at 10,300 feet and climbs to a cirque at just under 12,000 feet in about three miles. That’s 1,700 feet of elevation gain over the trail distance, or bit over a ten percent grade. At the bottom of the cirque, basically a steep, high semicircular wall too hard to climb without ropes at the trail end, is Herman Lake. Many out-and-back hiking trails in Colorado follow a stream up a valley that ends at a lake surrounded on the uphill side by a cirque. Herman Gulch is known to be a great area for wildflowers in early to mid July, and it’s a relatively short drive from Denver.
Though I’m no expert at wildflower identification an internet search indicates the flowers pictured here are possibly either Arnica montana or Euryops speciosissimus. Whatever they are, they were growing all over a slope just down the hill from Herman Lake. The photograph was made with a Tokina 11-20mm f2.8 Zoom lens at 11mm on a Nikon D7100.
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