Here's some of the other mountains up the chain.. Denver sits in a basin with rolling plains on the east and the mountains on the west. It doesn't sit *in* the mountains. Boulder does, however, sit in the foothills. Golden also sits in the foothills, so they can get that "Rocky Mountain Spring Water" for their Coors beer. Yuck. You can see the rolling clouds sitting on top of the mountains (Maximize the pic). All of this was taken this morning.. it was about 10 degrees when I took these pictures here on the plains. Up there, probably -10 to -15 degrees.