Jump into Fresh Snowmelt on the Continental Divide
I was hiking the King Lake Trail, in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, doing a 48-hour solo loop backpacking trip. It was late August. The wildflowers were going crazy, but up here just beneath the Continental Divide, there was still plenty of snow and ice.I was sitting behind a boulder next to King Lake when I heard a group of younger hikers pass behind me at the moment they topped a rise and got their first view of the lake and ice fields.
"Dude!"
That was all that needed to be said. I turned my camera on just before the first splash:
PHOTO and VIDEO by Joshua Berman:
