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The heat under the ground is still there

The mid-century pools

and early-morning stillness

Bree shoots one in silhouette against a Joshua Tree National Park dusk

Above The Fall Line Los Angeles Times color shifted just enough toCapitol Peak rises to 14,137 feet in the Elk Mountains southwest of Aspen, joined to the Maroon Bells range by the same red sedimentary rock. It's regarded as the most technically demanding of Colorado's fifty eight fourteeners the only non technical route up crosses the Knife Edge, a 150 foot ridge with 2,000 foot drops on either side. Sam frames it from across the basin, the summit catching first light.