nature
Sunday Season Check
Last-ish Hurrah At Altitude
I took an extra day of the long weekend to line up with Doc’s day off and we went to the Uinta mountains, to explore the area around Crystal Lake. We were planning on a loop but ended up doing an out-and-back (the Lakes Country trail) and it did indeed deliver on the lakes:
Everything is still green but it was 48 degrees when we started and the light just looks like fall. I guess it comes faster at 10,000 feet.
I’m Not Saying It
Golden Hour
Doc had his last free Friday afternoon before going back to work full time so I logged on early and left at 3:00, so we could get a golden afternoon up Millcreek.
We didn’t really hike, just visited my favorite stretch of stream, the one that always makes me think of Schubert or The Wind in the Willows. That August light is really something.
Wildflower Season
Cool
It’s Trying
We went on a hike for the first time in a long time and the lowest possible trailhead is clear of snow and almost, maybe-just-barely starting to get green:
Of course, we went up to the next trailhead as we waited for a space to park at the lowest trailhead, and the snowbanks there were still higher than my car. But spring is doing its best, and that’s about all we can ask for.
Softening
Sure, there’s easily six feet of snow in the lower canyons (and something like 30 feet at the highest elevations) but the sun was shining yesterday and some of that snow was melting. AND the afternoon seemed like a proper afternoon, not just a sudden jump from lunchtime to twilight. I think…I think winter might be losing its grip.
(Winter isn’t giving up willingly, though; there’s another snowstorm in the works for tomorrow.)