Arctic air moved in during the night last night, providing sun and blue sky today for the first time in about a month.
When I started out for today’s hike I was not going into the snow and so I didn’t wear high boots, since I wasn’t going into lion country I didn’t take a pistol, and I was looking only for shots of the blue sky. Instead, as I walked through snow above the tops of my hiking boots I kept crossing lion tracks and most of the photos I took were of scenes in the clouds. Works for me!
This is a large rock slide about a mile below the peak on Baldy Mountain. The old local adage is that it is time to plant frost tender plants only after the snow has left the “flatiron”.
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