Colorado

Snow traces the layered faces of two mountain peaks.
A hiker looks across a lake toward snow-covered mountains.
A hiker standing among trees beneath snowy mountains.

Into Utah

A broad sandstone arch surrounded by red rock formations.
A sheer red sandstone wall beneath a deep blue sky.
A small opening lets sunlight through the sandstone overhead.
Rounded sandstone towers above low desert vegetation.
A shallow-focus view across sandstone toward distant rock towers.

Canyonlands, on foot

Backpackers scrambling up a sandstone slope.
A camper beside a tent beneath tall sandstone cliffs.
Layered canyons and desert mesas stretch into the distance.
A small cactus with bright purple flowers in sandy soil.
A small green plant growing in a pocket of sandstone.
Close-up of green segmented stems among dry vegetation.
A small fuzzy caterpillar on a red sandstone surface.
A wall of sandstone towers above a green canyon floor.
Sunlight flares around a sandstone formation near sunset.
Pink and orange sunset clouds above the sandstone landscape of Canyonlands.
A small scorpion fluorescing under blue and violet light.
Silhouetted rock formations beneath a sky full of stars.

Great Sand Dunes

Sand dunes and mountains seen through a vehicle window.
A person in an orange hat walking across a broad sand dune.
Wind-rippled sand with a walker softly out of focus in the distance.
Tufts of green grass emerging from windblown sand.
Dune ridges beneath a blue sky streaked with clouds.
An expansive view over pale rolling sand dunes.
A curving dune crest divides light and shadow.

After dark

Three people resting on a dune in the fading evening light.
Flames rising from a campfire after dark.
Three silhouettes on the crest of a dune under the stars.
The Milky Way stretches over dunes, with a bright streak in the sky.
A person silhouetted on a dune beneath the Milky Way.

Then back to Denver.