Maroon Bells Running Hat | Orange Rust & Wild Rose

Maroon Bells   Maroon Bells are two peaks in the Elk Mountains in Colorado - the Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak. Their layered and soft appearance are due to the rock's origin of a sediment shed off of an ancient mountain chain, the Ancestral Rockies, that occurred 300 million years ago!! The mudstone remained buried until the modern Rockies rose , lifting and exposing the rock!  Mountain ecosystems are important for biological diversity and are found on all continents, latitude zones, and support  a wide variety of ecosystems. They host nearly one–quarter of all terrestrial biodiversity...