Sunrise Heaven
© 2010, Fremont River Photography I was out of bed early enough to catch this glorious sunrise from the front of my house.
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Flash Flood in Torrey
July 25th 2007 We have been having heavy thunderstorms every day for the last week with quite a lot of rain falling, on the evening of Tuesday 24th the rain fell particularly heavily for a couple of hours over the canyon between the Anthill and Thousand Lake Mountain (and over Torrey at the same time). This is the catchment area for Sand Creek which flows down from Thousand Lake Mountain then turns east across the north end of Torrey before joining Sulphur Creek and flowing into Capitol Reef NP. The bridge is on Center Street which runs up from the side of the Chuck Wagon to the Sleeping Rainbow area behind Torrey, this road was only just paved last year. Looking west from the bridge, Sand Creek is normally a trickle at this time of year, maybe a couple of feet across and an inch or two deep, even during the snow melt it rarely has more than a foot of water in it. The water went right up over the bridge Continued here
Winter in June
After several days of 80F+ weather the tables turned and June 6th took us back to March weather! Snow on Thousand Lake Mountain north-east of Torrey Peeking at winter on Boulder Mountain The Teasdale Stegosaurus After taking a few pictures around town I headed up into the high country on Utah 72, known as Sweeper Madness to it's motorcycling friends. Sweeper Madness The wind was blowing so hard up here the snow was plastered to the sign. This viewpoint is at about 8000 feet, it was 34F with a 50+ mph wind gusting higher, at times it was hard to stand up and my ears froze! Looking east over Cathedral Valley to the Henry Mountains Looking south at Hen Hole Peak From here I continued over 72 to I70 but stayed off the freeway and took the remnants of old US 50 which is a dirt "frontage" road for most of the way to Salina. In the Torrey area the snow settled down to about 7000 feet (right above town) but while I was eating lunch at Mom's Cafe in Salina, which is quite a bi...