The Front Range
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
The Front Range
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Digital Enhancement
Description
Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,259-foot fourteener is located in the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, 9.6 miles southwest by south of the Town of Estes Park, Colorado. Longs Peak is the furthest north "fourteener" in the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park. The mountain was named in honor of explorer Stephen Harriman Long and is featured on the Colorado state quarter.
The 14,259 foot mountain in northern Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park has served as a navigational aid for thousands of years. Prehistoric hunters oriented their travels by it and the Ute Indians saw Longs Peak as a sacred place and guiding landmark. French speaking fur trappers called Longs Peak and adjacent Mt. Meeker "Les Deux Oreilles," or the Two Ears.
After Major Stephen H. Long led a U.S. Army topographic expedition to this region in 1820, the peak was named for him. As Major Long and his party of 22 explorers neared the Rocky Mountains, he wrote, "a high Peake was plainly to be distinguished towering above all the others as far as sight extended." Modern travelers still use this famous landmark to orient themselves when needed...
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 2018 by Jon Burch Photography.
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March 11th, 2018
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