Sophie and I hiked to Niwot Ridge in the Indian Peaks. We start from the Colorado University Mountain Research Station. After going through the gate at the station we travel along some fairly rough terrain and park in a clearing next to a locked gate. From there we continued on foot up the road for official vehicles.

You can see some dark clouds and rain falling ahead. Oddly the road from here on out was much better than the road between the research station and the parking area. I guess the want to discourage people from using the trail.

Sophie discovers some heavy duty cable. There were several sections coiled near the road so they must be routing some equipement up on the tundra. Probably it is for the TundraCam. When I went to the website and clicked on TundraCam I saw this message:

Sorry, but TundraCam is not working today (again).

"Our problems started out with a faulty router, but the deeper we dig, the more mysterious it gets. It's a complicated network, involving (among other things) several miles of buried fiber optic cable, We're working on it though - no promises as to when, but we'll get it back up eventually... Thanks for your patience!"