A Colorado Good Morning

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A Colorado Good Morning

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Jon Burch Photography

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Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement

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A Colorado "Good Morning" from Longs Peak, Mt. Meeker and the front range! For generations, Longs Peak played a part in the seasonal migrations, hunting practices, and cosmology of Ute and Arapaho Indians. The Arapaho called Longs Peak and Mount Meeker the “Two Guides,” or nesótaieux, because of their physical prominence and role as landmarks for the entire region.

After 1820, US surveyors, miners, traders, settlers, and soldiers gradually wrested control of the Rockies from native tribes and began turning Denver and other sites along the eastern edge of the mountains into an urban-industrial corridor. Tourism was one of the region’s emerging industries, and mountaineering was a recreational draw. A handful of Americans moved to the Estes Park area and carved out hardscrabble lives as climbing guides and hoteliers for a small number of tourists and climbers. As rail and automobile routes expanded and visitation increased, the wealth and ambitions of this rugged cohort grew apace.

None was more important than Enos Mills, who moved to Estes Park as a young man, guided innumerable climbers to the Longs Peak summit on non-technical routes, became owner of the popular Longs Peak Inn, and campaigned tirelessly for the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park.

The park was founded in 1915, just one year before the National Park Service’s Organic Act assigned all national parks the task of balancing conservation and recreation. According to the act, parks must conserve “the scenery and the natural and historical objects and wild life therein” but must also provide “for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for future generations.”

Some digital effects were applied to this original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark.

Image copyright 2019 Jon Burch Photography

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April 20th, 2019

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