Beautiful range

Sun is getting low, time to head down.

That's the direction we came from. You can see the road and some lakes. The trail wiggled up near the colorful patches of aspens and then up the ridge. About 8 miles round trip with ~3k ft gain.

We booked it down the peak to make sure we weren't getting back too late. At this point I suddenly stopped to take pictures. The light was beautiful!

Sun and shadows in the valley below.

Looking back on the summit

Sunset shadow

Last photo of the hike - put the camera away and got the headlamp out. Only needed it for the last ~1/3 mile of the hike. Great afternoon!

View of wheeler Peak the next morning.

Aspens along the park road. We camped near the wheeler peak trailhead at the campground. It was nice.

Great Basin National Park

We stopped by a place called Pictograph Cave.

But we didn't go in - just looked at the rock art around the outside.

Alien dude

We took the 9am tour of Lehman Caves. It was a 90 minute walk through the caves and we had a good guide. Really nice formations.

Cave formation in UV light (david had his UV flashlight along)

Cave popcorn

BACON!