Yesterday we scouted out Rocky Mountain National Park, driving east to west along the Trail Ridge Road. Can't wait to get out and camp there. The road goes up to over 12,000 feet in elevation, and it's beautiful. The views of Long's Peak, the Never Summer Mountains, and into Medicine Bow Wyoming are majestic. Along with the standard marmots and pikas, we saw plenty of elk and a mother moose and calf laying low in the tall grass. It's been over 10 years since I had seen a moose, and I forget how massive they are.
On the way out of Estes Park we had to stop for a bull elk and his harem of cows in the middle of the road. He even stopped to give us a bugle. It's almost season for the males to fight each other for the right to date the ladies, and I guess this guy decided to take his girlfriends and head to town.
