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November 20, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: Big Cottonwood Canyon, Great Western Trail, hiking, Indian Paintbrush, Lake Desolation, Millcreek Canyon, photography, Salt Lake City Utah, Wasatch Mountain wildflowers, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest, Wildflowers | 16 Comments
You saw the mountainside flower garden just below the other side of the ridge here…and the image below is what you can see when you look down the ridge in the opposite direction. From approximately 9,600 feet in elevation, you can see out through Millcreek Canyon, clear across the Salt Lake Valley, and visualize the open pit mine on the eastern face of the Oquirrh Mountains…the western geographical boundary of the Valley….

August 26, 2013 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: Great Western Trail, hiking, Lake Desolation, Millcreek Canyon, Oquirrh Mountains, photography, Salt Lake City nature, Salt Lake City Utah, Salt Lake Valley, Utah hiking, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest | 25 Comments
No longer the guardian of the Wood…he is returning to the earth…from whence he came….

August 5, 2012 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: b&w photography, fallen Pine, fallen tree, Great Western Trail, Millcreek Canyon, nature, nature photography, photography, Salt Lake City Utah, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest | 24 Comments
Walking the Great Western Trail from above Desolation Lake toward Guardsman Pass in the Wasatch Mountains, I happened to uncautiously look up from the steeply slanted snowbank that I was crossing and had to quickly steady myself from falling backwards as I stood upright and gazed at the strange clouds above me….

Another mile or so down the trail, I happened to look up again and off to the east beyond the mountains and found that the cloud was slowly dispersing….

June 15, 2012 | Categories: Photos - Outdoors | Tags: Big Cottonwood Canyon Utah, cloud halo, clouds, Desolation Lake, dispersing clouds, Great Western Trail, Guardsman Pass, hiking, Millcreek Canyon, nature, outdoors, peace, photography, Salt Lake City Utah, Solitude Utah, Spring, strange clouds, trail-walking, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch National Forest | 18 Comments