At 11.22 am on the 4th of March this year, we were at least several hundred metres closer to sea level than where I had taken the previous post’s photo
However, we were still at high altitude – probably, circa 3,500 metres ASL – & still on the flanks of Nevado del Ruiz.
The air was still deliciously cool and clean.
Very obviously, we were still in a very high-rainfall zone.
I think we were no longer within Los Nevados National Park.
You may – or may not – recognise exactly what provided the pictured lichens and mosses with an obviously-ideal home.
This post’s photo was taken in what used to be a splendid example of a páramo ecosytem, but has now become grassed paddocks, grazed by cattle.
You are looking at the top of a wooden fencepost!
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