An alpine day

"The best part of living in Laramie is that the Snowies are 45 minutes away."  Charlotte and I have been hearing this repeatedly since moving here.  As we already discovered, some of Laramie's best selling points lie beyond the city limits (though not far).  As mentioned before, Vedauwoo is 20 minutes to our east (see below), and the closest bit of the Medicine Bow National Forest is only about 10 minutes away.

However, what I had been seeing all the time from Laramie...but hadn't experienced in person until today...is the Snowy Range, which lies about 30 miles west of town.

Wow.

At 7,200', Laramie is different from most places, but when you're in the Snowies you're up at about 10,500'.  It is an alpine landscape that feels like an entirely different world.  You're liable to see all sorts of things, like beautiful wildflowers...

...beautiful alpine meadows...

....adorable wildlife...

...and, if you're lucky, folks that take their macaws hiking.  

Knowing that this is all about 40 minutes away from our front door, would I go back again?  Yeah, maybe.