Continuing up Ohio Pass, I made the following image of backlit aspen trees with low clouds that were hanging in the valley below.
Ohio Creek receives some of its water from a waterfall that cascades down some steep cliffs.
There as several rock scree slopes that border the aspen forests. These slopes are created by alternate thawing and freezing of steep rock faces.
Castle Mountain is located in the West Elk Wilderness that borders close to Ohio Pass. During the course of the day that I spent on the pass, Castle Mountain was obscured several times by storm clouds. Occasionally the storms cleared, allowing me to capture an image of the mountain and surrounding forests.
Later in the day, I made another stop in Gunnison and headed back towards Ohio Creek. Along the way, I stopped at Carbon Creek, a location that I discovered one summer, maybe 3 years ago. There are several beaver ponds in this creek that slow the flow of water downstream. During the fall, this allows one to capture reflections of the fall colors in the water.
I made my way back up Ohio Pass, stopping at the base of the pass to capture the following green, yellow, orange and red colors of the quaking aspen trees.
Of course, I could not ignore capturing those red aspen leaves, in the following image.
After leaving Gunnison, I stopped to make another image of the storm clouds over Gunnison Basin.
In the above image, I converted the image to monochrome black and white. This allowed me to emphasize the bright triangular cloud over the mountain.