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Sunrise from Mt. Lincoln, 14,286 feet
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| PIkes Peak rises above the fog filling South Park, as seen from the summit of Mt. Lincoln |
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| Twilight wedge over Mount of the Holy Cross, as seen from the summit of Mt. Lincoln |
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My alarm yanked me out of a restless
sleep at 2:30 am. My headache was gone. I managed to force down a muffin with difficulty. Not eating dinner
the night before meant that I hadn't drunk enough water either and the muffin seemed as dry as if I was eating cotton balls.
I forced down some water and Cytomax on top of a cup of coffee and started up the trail at 3:30 am.
My shoot coincided with new moon, and the night seemed unbelievably dark, with laser-bright stars. The wind, thankfully,
had eased to a gentle, intermittent breeze. I took my time, sipping Cytomax every 15 minutes by the clock and eating
a small granola bar every hour. I topped Mt. Cameron (a bump on the long ridge leading to Mt. Lincoln) just as a faint
glow began along the eastern horizon and summited Mt. Lincoln half an hour before sunrise. The high altitude air
was very clear, with almost no haze. A richly colored twilight wedge developed over Mount of the Holy Cross, so I shot
it first, then shot looking in almost every direction, including a few frames of Pikes Peak rising out of the fog filling
South Park 4,000 feet below. With my headache and nausea gone, I finished shooting the best light, ate a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich, hiked out and drove home, delighted that I'd pulled off a plan that seemed doomed to fail at least twice.
Total time, front door to front door: 25 hours, 15 minutes. It had seemed much longer.
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To order an 11x14 loose, matted-only or framed print of Pikes
Peak from Mt. Lincoln, please visit my product catalog by clicking the link beneath the appropriate thumbnail.
To order an 11x14 loose, matted-only or framed print of Mount
of the Holy Cross from Mt. Lincoln, please visit my product catalog by clicking the link beneath the appropriate thumbnail.
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Glenn Randall Photography
At
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