Buzzkill - I was using my trusty old Olympus C-720. It's only a 3 megapixel camera but 8x optical zoom and decent glass. Tough day for taking pics that day, it was overcast and light was weird. (Can't even see the sky through the aspens in that one pic).
In Colorado, there are 3 big "parks", North Park (which is most of Jackson County), Middle Park (Park County), which is in the hills SW of Denver, and South Park, otherwise known as the San Louis Valley (Alamosa County), down by the New Mexico border. All 3 are pretty places, although NP is my favorite. South Park is nice because there are a lot of waterfowl raised down there and the hunting can be good. It's very rural and pretty damn scenic, with the Sangre De Cristo mountains to the east, a range that is PACKED with 14,000 ft high mountains, that are snowcapped much of the year. My first duck season in Colorado I hunted the waterfowl opener down there and did very well. I don't have too much experience with middle park, other than driving through.
Lots' of moose in the state, FirstFreedom. And North Park probably isn't even the best place to spot them. Grand Mesa, down in the Southwest/west central part of the state has some monsters.
Some areas even have warning signs warning hunters to be careful of their targets, so that unsuspecting hunters with ELK tags don't shoot a moose by accident.
As for shrooms in the aspens, I wouldn't know a safe shroom if it came up and bit me