Sheep Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park
by Catherine Sherman
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Sheep Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park
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Catherine Sherman
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"Sheep Lake, Fall River Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado" by Catherine Sherman.
Storm clouds roll over the Fall River Valley, which is flanked on the left by Sundance Mountain (12,466 feet) and Mt. Chapin (12,454 feet) on the right. This majestic valley is in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
In the foreground is one of the Sheep Lakes, in the West Horseshoe Park area of RMNP. The lakes are kettle ponds, which were formed about 15,000 years ago by massive glacier blocks of ice. Now, bighorn sheep regularly come down from the mountainsides during the day to visit these small lakes to get nutrients from the mineral-rich mud. Rangers halt traffic to let the sheep cross the road.
Featured in "Whats New" group (08/09/18); "Images That Excite You" group (08/10/2018); "Travel Art" group (08/25/2018)
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August 9th, 2018
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Felix Lai
Fantastic landscape capture, love this! l/f
Catherine Sherman replied:
Thank you very much, Felix. If only the sheep had appeared at Sheep Lake!
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