An Alpine Ramble High Above Crested Butte (poem)
An Alpine Ramble High
Above Crested Butte
We hop on a chairlift
to hum above bike trails
cris-crossing open slopes
full of flowers and bordered
by spruce forests that scent
the air as we rise higher
toward blue Colorado sky.
At last we walk off the lift
to take a magical trail so
far above Crested Butte
encircled by snow-capped
peaks with alpine flowers
at our feet and huge smiles
on my families' faces as they
stare in wonder at it all.
Crested Butte right across the mountains from Aspen, Colorado
© 2016 Richard Francis Fleck