About an hour west of Denver on Interstate 70, at a little over 11,000 feet is the The Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnel, the highest elevation vehicular tunnel in the world. This image shows the west portal entrance to the tunnel, looking down from U.S Highway 6, just a few feet down from Loveland Pass. I grabbed this image on July 12, 2009 - during the height of the summer tourist season and well past the last snow of spring. Nonetheless, there was still a fair amount of snow at higher elevation. On a normal Sunday afternoon, the eastbound lanes would be nearly packed with bumper-to-bumper traffic - a combination of natives and tourists making their way back down to Denver. But on this particular afternoon, all the eastbound traffic was jammed up on the other side of the tunnel due to an accident (an RV caught fire on the long, steep grade leading up to the tunnel). Mikey, who was driving 45 miles ahead of me, sent me a text message informing me that he was stuck in the middle of the jam and had just come up on what was left of the RV. He suggested I detour off I-70 near Dillon and take U.S Highway 6 up, over, and around the tunnel. The beautiful summer day and the perfect position of the sun help light the scene, one which I'm sure everyone else loves to photograph.