Three image panorama from Keystone, looking southwest. Colorado, 2015 (full-sized print is 24″ x 7.5″)
On a short break for a bit of skiing…and I have been taking the unavoidable opportunity to admire the surrounding peaks, all dressed in white.
They look quite different from these new (to me) angles, and in winter I wasn’t able to recognize any of the 14ers in this panorama even though I have been to the top of all of them.
This was a three image merge using the Fuji X100s, handheld. My perch was the top of “The Outback” lift at the Keystone Ski Area.
In the larger, printed, version, all the summits I name below are easily visible. On your small screen, they will be difficult to discern.
The following, then, is for the hardcore mountain gawkers and peak baggers among you…
Mount Guyot (13,370′) and Bald Mountain (13,684′) are the big, good-looking masses on the left and closest.
In the distance, from left to right, you can pick out:
Mt. Bross (14,172′)…first of the farther away high points to the right of Bald Mountain.
Mt. Lincoln (14,286′)…next high point to the right of Bross. Mt. Cameron, at 14,238′ is barely visible behind.
Mt. Democrat (14,148′)…first high point right of Lincoln, barely visible above intervening ridge.
Quandary Peak (14,265′)…the most obvious of the distant peaks. The normal route follows the ridge up from left to right.
Atlantic Peak (13,841′)…the bright white summit well right of Quandary, in back of the distant ridge line.
Pacific Peak (13,950′)…a small dark pyramid is visible above the ridge line in this image.
Crystal Peak (13,852′)…the next high point right of Pacific, glowing white.
Peak 10 (13,633′)…just barely right of and slightly lower than Crystal.
Peak 9 (13,195′)…a lower summit above the middle of Breckinridge Ski Area.
One last photograph of a portion of the area…
Guyot, Bald Mnt, and Lincoln 14er Group. From Keystone Ski Area, Colorado, 2015
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