Above Treeline

Mount Blue Sky, above twelve thousand feet, where the goats shed their winter coats in sheets and the marmots do most of the watching.

Mount Blue Sky 19 photographs
A mountain goat nanny and her kid picking their way across an alpine slope A mountain goat kid standing on a rocky alpine ridge against open sky Two mountain goat kids resting on bare ground beneath an adult against blue sky An adult mountain goat bedded on bare rock high above the valley A mountain goat in a loose herd, winter coat hanging in ragged sheets An adult yellow-bellied marmot and a pup sharing a sunlit rock among wildflowers A mountain goat kid alone on a high ridge with distant peaks behind A bighorn ewe drinking at a rocky seep while her lamb stands watch A mountain goat kid resting between boulders with wildflowers around it A bighorn ewe and lamb standing together on a sunlit alpine slope A lone mountain goat kid on a bare ridgeline with hazy ranges beyond A bighorn lamb facing the camera in a meadow of alpine wildflowers Several mountain goats bedded on an alpine slope with peaks behind A mountain goat standing on the rocky crest of a summit, coat half shed A mountain goat lying flat on loose scree with a kid resting behind A mountain goat nanny and kid grazing alpine tundra above a steep drop A mountain goat kid standing close beside its bedded mother A mountain goat kid standing square on loose summit scree A mountain goat nanny leaning down to nuzzle her kid on a rocky edge
Alpine Marmots, Rocky Mountain National Park 3 photographs
A yellow-bellied marmot standing upright in green brush, watching the slope Two yellow-bellied marmots touching noses on a lichen-covered boulder A yellow-bellied marmot on a rock rimmed in low backlight beside green shrubs