Longs Peak and Pagoda Mountain (to the lower left of center):
Green Mountain in Lakewood appears plain and uninteresting from a distance, but there's a poetry to the many ridges and folds that becomes apparent up close.
In the evening, I encountered a coyote in the dark -- manifested as two shiny eyes -- and it reluctantly headed uphill to avoid me. It howled for a good half hour after I left. I wonder if it objected to my intrusion on "its" territory and needed to re-assert itself, or if it was going to howl anyway.
Distance was 11.89 miles, time 2:32:51, elevation gain/loss 1,491 feet, and average speed 4.7 mph.
