This door and window are part of an abandoned adobe vacation house in Villanueva, New Mexico.
Portions of the Mount Evans Wilderness Area of central Colorado burned in the 1960s, leaving an eery landscape and fascinating weathering patterns on the trunks of the trees in the burned areas.
This bark detail is from burned forest in the Mount Evans Wilderness.These stones peek up out of the surface of Lincoln Lake in the Mount Evans Wilderness, Colorado.Burned pines reach for clouds on the Lincoln Lake Trail in the Mount Evans Wilderness, Colorado.
I stayed in Idaho Springs, Colorado for a couple of days to acclimate, then drove to the end of the access road west of the town of Evergreen.
The only lens I carried on this trip was my 55mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor.
The forest is reflected in the waters of Lincoln Lake.Fallen and burned trees dot the landscape of the Lincoln Lake trail in the Mount Evans Wilderness.
The hike through the wilderness ascended more than 3000 feet and was physically challenging.
The author hikes the Lincoln Lake trail, which, at five miles and 3000 feet elevation gain, took about eight hours to hike with a full pack.
Our camp site was on the south end of Lincoln Lake, a small, snow-fed body of clear water just below the tree line. I camped there two nights.
This view from Lincoln Lake looks up the col toward the Mount Evans highway. The white areas near the top are snow.This view of Lincoln Lake looks southeast from 1500 feet below the Mount Evans highway.A granite block sits near the talus field on the northwest end of Lincoln Lake.Your host hikes on the Lincoln Lake Trail.Burned and weathered trees create eery fingers in the Mount Evans Wilderness Area.Trees had been burned in a wildfire, leaving behind barkless trees like this one in the Mount Evens Wilderness.I photographed this New Mexico sunset at the end of the trip, in Villanueva, New Mexico.
Once I was down from the trail, I drove south to a summer house in Villanueva, New Mexico. My route took me through Cerillos and Madrid, New Mexico, then up to Sandia Peak in time for sunset 5000 feet above Albuquerque. Tired from hiking and driving, once I arrived at the isolated thick, cool adobe house, I slept one of the deepest sleeps I have ever experienced.
I photographed these boulders and clouds near Cerillos, New Mexico.I found these cliffs near Cerillos, New Mexico.These cliffs near Cerillos, New Mexico are pale yellow, but much more interesting in black-and-white.This weathered fence is part of the landscape in Villanueva, New Mexico.A beautiful Catholic mission steeple stands watch over Cerrillos, New Mexico.Cholla cactus invade an eroded wall in Villanueva, New Mexico.This view of Albuquerque, New Mexico was made just after sunset from Sandia Peak 5000 feet above.
