Deception
State/Province/Region
Colorado
Nearest Area
Rocky Mountain National Park
Description
What seemed at first like a relatively calm sunrise hike turned out to be much more, as thick wildfire smoke and ash billowed across the trail and its numerous lakes while a bitterly icy wind whipped up water off the lake and felt like needles stinging any exposed skin. The image here, however, communicates a deceptive sense of brisk calmness.