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Monday, December 30, 2019

Snow Chores


Red Mountain was recently closed due to heavy snow and avalanche runs. CDOT crews rotated through the night...carving passages, plowing snow and risking life and limb to the fickle whims of Mother Nature. They also fire off rounds of mortar shells in attempts to trigger potentially deadly buildups of snow that plague Highway 550 South all winter long.

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Christmas Eve Hike


Christmas is a good time to take a break from our usual geocentric lives and—with appropriate humility—fathom that neither the world nor the Universe revolves around us.

Friday, December 20, 2019

The Price Of Admission


Red Mountain Pass:  Though bitter cold, the sun promises to shine...a good day to get high.

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Tracking Bejeweled Mounds Of Powder Snow


Dawn brakes crisp as the thermometer hovers just above zero degrees. Half asleep, coffee in hand, I want to feel for myself. But the sliding glass door to the deck resists my tug...frozen tight in the closed position. 

Sunday, December 15, 2019

The Monster Inside Named Will


"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster."   Nietzsche 

Friday, December 13, 2019

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

"Into The Wild"


In the wake of a series of slipstream winter storms that pummeled high mountain passes—as well as our vertiginous bobsled-run driveway—the sun returned just in time to righten my snow-globe world and brighten my mood ring.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

"Our feet may leave, but not our hearts"


"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Sunday, December 1, 2019

It Takes A Superabundance Of Photos To Wrap Up Zion




Saturday was Jello-set to be D-Day from Southwest Utah. I say "Jello" because after a record-breakimg 160 days without a drop of rain, the skies opened up and delivered record-breaking amounts of moisture...inches upon inches seldom seen in high deserts. With all that rain came cloudy, cooler than normal weather. And it just kept getting colder and colder and colder.