A Walk Into Solitude

A FEW PHOTOS from a walk on Friday: a saunter away from Guanella Pass into solitude.

The walk’s aim was to start from Guanella Pass (often an exceptionally busy place), wander south to the far-less visited Geneva Mountain, then head back north up the center of the broad valley of Scott Gomer Creek. The delights started early on: solitude after a few steps, bright sunlight that took the edge of the frosty morning air, and flaming colours of autumn in the tundra vegetation.

For the first mile I ...