While backpacking up to the Big Pine Lakes & Palisades Glacier early October, I paused to pay tribute to the Altar of the Aspens, & all the amazing aspens along the trail. . Very warm this late up here, so aspens were just shifting into yellow on the way up, & with a red tinge on the way down. Last year late September many aspens already well red with snow in the air—this year still hot hot hot. . Aspen leaves can catch & dance in faerie breezes not even a bare wet bum can feel. . #KissMyAspen #AltarOfTheAspens #RockOn #TunnelOfLeafLove #Yellow #Aspens #Fall #Autumn #BigPineLakes #BigPineNorthFork #InyoNationalForest #Backpacking #Camping #EasternSierra #EasternSierraNevada #MovingMeditation #LeafMeAlone #NorCal (at Big Pine Lakes) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkCWexepytc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
