The Two Guides
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
The Two Guides
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
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For generations, Longs Peak played a part in the seasonal migrations, hunting practices, and cosmology of Ute and Arapaho Indians. The Arapaho called Longs Peak and Mount Meeker the “Two Guides,” or nesótaieux, because of their physical prominence and role as landmarks for the entire region.
Longs Peak is the highest mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park. It is one of the fifty-four 14,000-foot peaks of Colorado. Colorado has 53 Fourteeners, including Longs Peak. In mountaineering terminology, a Fourteener is a mountain that meets or exceeds an elevation of 14,000 feet above mean sea level. Mt. Meeker at 13,916 feet is not a Fourteener.
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 2019 Jon Burch Photography
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April 28th, 2019
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