Crested Butte - Part 3 of 4

The following day turned out to be the nicest day we had from a weather perspective.  It turns out the goal for each day was fairly simple: hike in the morning, bike in the afternoon, and a nice dinner on the town each night (which also required some tiny, fresh, hot doughnuts from Niky's for dessert).  This hike's primary destination was Copley Lake but we also went a bit further up past the lake.

Here were some beautiful wild flowers on the way.  All the colorful flowers were simply amazing and covered most of the grassy areas.

After about an hour we ended up at Copley Lake and were greeted with these impressive views.  It was mostly marshy extending around the lake edge so we enjoyed the views for a a bit and then turned back to hike some more.  We don't have pictures but continued on up towards another peak off to the East (right) of this area.  There were two very interesting, noteworthy things to mention here.  First, we ended up hiking right past a full-sized silver Airstream that was just planted halfway up this mountain side along a river.  It was almost impossible to imagine how it possibly could have gotten there.  It looked fairly abandoned, so we left it be and kept going.  The second interesting thing was arriving at a mine site that Tara wanted to explore.  My better judgement won out and we decided not to get arrested or shot at for trespassing on someone's mining claim.  After a while, we decided we better head back down to civilization to get some lunch and have an afternoon bike ride.

Another picture of some really amazing flowers along the way.  Man, do we have a good looking state flower, or what?  (Clearly, the author just changed with that question...could you tell?) ;)