Moose Encounter in Rocky Mountain Meadow

The trail I choose for my Rocky Mountain National Park adventure is Green Mountain into the Onahu Creek Trail, an eight-mile (13-kilometer) journey that begins with wide open trails immersed in towering ponderosas and spruce reaching toward the clouds, the ground dotted with purple columbine and lady slipper flowers steadily moving uphill. After 40 minutes or so it levels out, and eventually I spill out in a beautiful open meadow — aptly named Big Meadow — a great view of the iconic and oddly slanted Mount Ida and… a moose! A giant male moose stands in the meadow crunching away on grass, unaware of my creepy self lurking in the bushes snapping photos. It’s amazing getting to witness nature from a safe distance in its natural habitat, nobody else around but me. READ MORE: http://jessieonajourney.com/grand-county-colorado-adventures/