Bierstadt and Byers's return trip to Denver was uneventful and Fitz Hugh Ludlow would get to look at Bierstadt's studies, which he later described as some of the finest color studies he made along that [mountain] chain—among others an exquisite series of lakes on a mountain to whose very top he ascended with his color-box, a height of over 15,000 feet, or considerably taller than Mont Blanc. Ludlow marveled at the landscape sketches and their colors and especially of the main peak that Bierstadt had named: