A weathered, dead tree looks out over a peak above the plains of South Dakota under a clear blue sky.
View from Black Elk Peak (7244ft/2208m), the highest point in the US east of the Rocky Mountains.
📍Black Elk Wilderness, South Dakota
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Alpine forest gives way to a series of high peaks under a blue sky in Colorado's Sangre de Christo mountains.
Blanca Peak, the highest point in the Sangre de Christo Mountains, and the surrounding Sierra Blanca Massif.
📍San Isabel National Forest, Colorado
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We can’t #LetUp
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We Do Not Stand Alone
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Fun fact: the State of Nebraska’s high point is on a bison farm. There’s one road in/out, and the bison have de facto right-of-way. “Friend-shaped but not friends”, indeed.
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