These are photos I took while hiking up to Arthur’s Rock in Lory State Park (near Fort Collins, Colorado) while filming the video “Arthur’s Rock (Lory State Park – Part 2) – In A Colorado Minute (Week 206)” for my weekly 1-minute Moving Postcard web series, which you can watch HERE, where you can also read more about the park and the trail.
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Rock on top of Arthur’s Rock
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Arthur’s Rock Trail
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The early part of Arthur’s Rock Trail
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Meadow in front of Arthur’s Rock
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Arthur’s Rock
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| Pasque flower (aka pulsatilla) – a common spring flower in the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains |
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My patient hiking and filming buddy, Whiskey,
waiting for me to be done filming flowers along the trail |
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Switchback trail up to Arthur’s Rock gets that extra natural feel by big rocks in the path
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| Lots of grasshoppers and butterflies were sunning on the south-facing hill |
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| Hikers making it up the trail to Arthur’s Rock, leaving Horsetooth Reservoir behind |
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Rocks and roots across the trail give it a wonderfully natural look
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My hiking buddy Whiskey watching butterflies
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Possibly a Spring Beauty flower (Claytonia lanceolata)
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| At times you can hardly tell where the trail is |
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Dead trees on top of Arthur’s Rock – the perfect pick-nick backdrop
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Two of the boulders on the top or Arthur’s Rock
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Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins and the Great Plains seen from Arthur’s Rock
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Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins and the Great Plains seen from Arthur’s Rock
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| Coves of Horsetooth Reservoir and the lower part of Lory State Park |
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One of the Horsetooth Reservoir damns of Horsetooth Reservoir and Fort Collins –
seen from Arthur’s Rock
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