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 I posted these to Reddit, but thought some people might also enjoy them here. My parents have an old photo album of a family trip to Rocky Mountain National Park from around 1916-1920. I’m not sure of the exact dates because my grandfather (who is the little boy called ‘Bim’ in some of the photos) was adopted, but never knew what year he was born. There is some cool stuff of my relatives (?) climbing Long’s Peak and other CO hikes, and some photos of RMNP from right after it became a national park. The photos and album are in good condition, my pics of them are atrocious (apologies), but here’s a lot of them: https://imgur.com/a/6ALhpYq
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Mr. Crow posted:These are very cool thanks for sharing! Did I read that right they climbed longs in 3 hours? Thats insane Yeah, I have no idea—they must have started from pretty high up. I’ve never been up to Long’s.
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Aug 9, 2022 16:20
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Woah, awesome! That’s pretty amazing. Thanks so much for finding all of those spots. Weird how the snow looks the same.
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Aug 9, 2022 19:33
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Oracle posted:This is awesome. I contacted someone in the history department at RMNP. Haven’t heard back yet. There are probably a lot of people out there who have old family photos like this (RMNP was a popular destination even back then), so I’m not sure if they’d be of any interest to people there. The photos also don’t really show a ton of the permanent snow fields I know are up there. I’ll still write to them and see if they might be interested, though. I mean, why not? Good call.
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Aug 10, 2022 13:49
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I would also recommend staying in the park if you can, depending on how many days you’re there. Just because the drive up onto the mesa takes a long time to do each day.
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