Just sharing a few photos I take from time to time. I really don't focus on photographs, as I've always maintained the best camera is the Mark I Eyeball, but some things are just too beautiful to pass up. Please add your own contributions, many of our members live in countries I know have jaw dropping landscapes.
First up, an aspen grove and mountain meadow at around 9000 ft (~2750m), taken atop Cheyenne Mountain - yes, that Cheyenne Mountain. This was actually taken last year, on the first day the trail to the (near) summit officially opened to the public. Which happened to be the peak of fall and prime time to see trees that haven't been visited much in the last century. A few weeks later, I ran in the first ever race to the top of Cheyenne, up the same trail. If you're thinking a narrow, newly forged trail up a steep mountain was probably an "interesting" place for an out-and-back race, you're right. Several runners commented that they feared for their lives; I had a blast, it's easier when you go fast and don't think about nonsense like that.
Next up, a view from around 13000 ft (~4000m), well above treeline on Pikes Peak. At this elevation distance becomes difficult to appreciate, the mountains in the distance are even further than they look. This is a hell of a place for a morning run! On a clear day up here you can see Kansas, a couple hundred miles east.
Standing near the bottom of the Bottomless Pit, looking up at sheer rock face measured in thousands of feet. This eye popping view is only a couple miles off Barr Trail not far from treeline, but attracts surprisingly little traffic. Maybe it's because you have to pick through a trail that's barely a trail and then traverse loose talus slopes overlooking a deep ravine with no easy exit to get there. The terrain you see in the near foreground is pretty much what you have to work with.
