cirque

In its early years, it was located smack in the middle of the grounds, a beaconing festival-goers with beats, cirque performances and the all-important misters.

Mann also took her cues from Teatro ZinZanni, a cirque entertainment show inside the Lotte Hotel Seattle that is celebrating 25 years.

This mile-long paved trail, which goes by bogs, meadows and waterfalls, leads to a stunning lake in a cirque surrounded by mountains.

The last pockets of snow were visible on a distant cirque.

The trail takes you through aspen, birch and pine groves until it reaches a small basalt column cirque with a peaceful waterfall.