The Rockies seem like an impossible beauty, like a boy's first sight of an undressed girl.

"On the Western horizon, under a clear sky sixty miles away crowned with snow, was a magical vision, a legend come true: the front range of the Rocky Mountains. An impossible beauty, like a boy's first sight of an undressed girl, the image of those mountains struck a fundamental chord in my imagination that has sounded ever since." 

Edward Abbey

Photo: Sunset on the Front Range, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; October 27, 2012