Chasm Lake Rocky Mountain National Park Ceramic Art Tile

Chasm Lake fills a glacial cirque at 11,760 feet on the east side of Longs Peak, the only fourteener in Rocky Mountain National Park. The Diamond rises directly above the water, a thousand feet of vertical granite that stays dark even at noon. The trail from the Longs Peak Trailhead climbs four miles to reach the outlet, the last stretch across slabs above Peacock Pool. Mills Glacier still holds snow under the wall into late summer. Climbers stage from the shore before dawn for the long routes up the face. Most people who reach the lake stay quiet a while, then turn back down.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.