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Saddle Mountain is locate just west of Crawford Colorado in the West Elk Mountains Located in Gunnison National Forest.
The West Elk Mountains in Colorado comprise a large remote wilderness west of Gunnison. The volcanic ridges and long valleys of this area offer countless opportunities for extended expeditions. As an added benefit, West Elk receives relatively few visitors outside of hunting season, probably because the area lacks fourteeners or numerous alpine lakes which typically attract recreational users. Secluded trips are readily attainable in West Elk, Colorado's fifth largest wilderness.
Aspen blanket the steep-sided valleys, and hikers visiting in late September are rewarded with golden fall colors, clear blue skies, brisk temperatures, and the unmistakable sound of bull elk bugling. Elk and deer herds numbering in the thousands.

I was born and raised in the magnificent state of Colorado. My love of the outdoors was nurtured by my parents, teaching me the value of nature and wildlife at an early age. Spending time in the outdoors hiking, camping and hunting only continued to encourage me to capture all the beauty I see in nature on film. I have been told for years that I had a "great eye" for photography, but it wasn't until I purchased my first DSLR camera that I started to see a whole new world open up to me. Inspired, I began to study photography in depth. Reading books and taking classes online from photographers like Kerry Dragger, William Neill, George Schwab and Doug J. Johnson It wasn't until I had taken a course taught by Jim Zuckerman, a world renowned...