Snowy Range and Lookout Lake
by Chance Kafka
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20.000 x 16.000 x 0.500 inches
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Title
Snowy Range and Lookout Lake
Artist
Chance Kafka
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
I have painted Lookout Lake as seen from high in the Medicine Bow Mountains, known locally as the Snowy Range, between Saratoga and Laramie, Wyoming. The shimmering waters of this particular alpine lake (there are many) are backropped by the regal, glacial peaks, the crest being named Medicine Bow Peak. The setting sun shoots rays high into the sky as is very common Wyoming where the clouds are big, dramatic, and move fast as the weather is always changing.
Wyoming State Highway 130, known as the Snowy Range Scenic Byway, winds through the range and offers access to these many pristine lakes. It is never very warm up there as the plateau the lakes sit on is over 10,000 feet high. Several feet of snow completely cover this landscape for much of the year, hence the range's nickname, and the road is open to cars only in the summer and early fall months.
When I lived in Wyoming, this area was one of my favorites to visit. I never got to climb Medicine Bow Peak, which tops out at over 12,000 feet high, but I image the views of the Laramie Valley and Laramie Mountains to the east, the towering Colorado Rockies to the south, Platte River Valley and Sierra Madre Mountains to the west, and the vast Shirley Basin and Elk Mountain to the north would have been well worth it. I want to try to hike it should I ever get a chance to return to the Cowboy State.
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April 6th, 2019
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Comments (86)
Laurel Adams
Today?...destination, Wyoming!! Painted artwork and a mixture of historical and aesthetic narrative fill one’s soul. Chance, what a STUNNING gift of desert beauty! Thank you for your talent share...LF
Randy Burns
Your passion and love for the desert always shows in your landscape paintings so beautifully Chance. I love the emotion you put into them. F/L.
Tsc Channa
Beautiful painting Chance . Love the way you've incorporated all colours and highlighted the sun's rays on the mountains and the lake . L/F