I'd been here once, almost 5 years ago, and don't remember much about it beyond being starkly beautiful. But that was before I gained a rudimentary appreciation of what makes a mountain range beautiful or stark, or for that matter, ugly and indistinct.
But I never lost the desire to go back to the Gores. This weekend I spent a couple of days trying to come to terms with the landscape of the Gores and how I would define it, armed as I was, with a vast new array of mountain climbing adjectives. In the final analysis, words, and to almost the same degree, photos, really don't do much to describe the splendor of that range.
But I brought a camera along and have this blog, so let's have a go.
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| West Partner - the monarch of the Pitkin Lake trail. |
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| Scenery along the trail. |
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| Pitkin Lake and West Partner |
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| Looking down the valley |
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| Above Pitkin Lake |
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| One of several approaches to the East Partner Traverse |
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| Morning at the bivy site |
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| The East Partner Ridge Traverse |
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| The valley on the way back to the trail head |
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| More of the valley |
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