Assorted Photo Gallery (Pre-Sunset)

	August 10, 2006 - My biggest goal was to photograph the sunset at Independence Pass, but here are some photos I snapped earlier in the evening. I stopped at the last major switch back on the east side of the pass on Highway 82.
	TOP: Mt. Champion (altitude 13,646 feet) MIDDLE: La Plata Peak (altitude 14,336 feet) BOTTOM: A large, unnamed peak that stands in front of Mt. Elbert.
	A photo of the lowest major switchback that shows just how steep this area is!
	Clouds.
	At the Independence Pass summit, I snapped this shot looking east of the divide.
	I first walked up a grassy and marshy knoll north of the Independence Pass parking lot and snapped this shot.
	I eventually, however, returned back to the road and snapped my sunset photos from this vicinity. Click here to see my sunset photos at Independence Pass!