Backpacking: two videos from last month

Nearly a month ago (from August 19 to 24) I went backpacking with Kimberly, an old friend of mine from New College. (She lived in the dorm across from mine.) We hiked the Indian Peaks Wilderness, a trip which took us up to 12, 400 feet and to cold alpine lakes, high meadows, and waterfalls. I got high altitude sickness, but the worst of it only lasted a night, and the rest of the time we were both giddy from lack of oxygen. Here are some short videos Kimmy took.

In the "Tea" video I didn't know I was being filmed, at first. The day before we had descended from the Continental Divide. We had found the perfect place to camp, near the top of a waterfall, and we were below treeline (at about 10,400), so I didn't feel sick at all the following morning.

This video was taken the same day, about three hours after the first. Notice the intense climate change. Here we're back up above treeline, and it's no longer sunny and hot. It's cold and misty and intermittently rainy. The scene was like certain parts of Northern England (misty, green, tree-less), the rolling terrain marked with small white granite boulders.