Wed 27 Jul 2011
We continue on the Fourth of July trip … across Beartooth Pass we go, on US-212. One of the most scenic drives to be found anywhere.
Squeezing in the last of morning light.
This sign might very well date back to when US-12 in Wyoming was renumbered to US-212 in 1963! There are very few US-212 shields in Wyoming.
About 9500 feet up the pass. This view is in infrared, which causes ice to show up bright blue.
A marmot appears.
Sat 16 Jul 2011
The Fourth of July trip. Undertaken by Daniel Brim and me. Our usual arrangement holds – we take approximately identical photos, and try not to hit any raccoons and/or rabbits.
Our destination is sunny Union County, New Mexico – by way of Beartooth Pass, Sioux City, and various other places that call into question our ability to drive in a straight line.
We fly into Salt Lake City airport, and then make a beeline to Grand Teton National Park for sunrise.
The Grand Tetons at sunrise.
Similar view, different road.
Late dawn, with foreground lighting.
Tue 12 Jul 2011
the third day of the Gila River trip, in which I return from New Mexico back home to San Diego.
Campfire from the night before. I don’t remember why we decided that Frosty the Candle Snowman had to go, but we certainly sent him off to Valhalla in style.
An old alignment of New Mexico state route 32 yields this tilted, decrepit junction assembly. It dates to the late 1960s or so.
This grassland – just east of Springerville, AZ – burned in the Wallow Fire just a few weeks after I took these photos. But, it will grow back, as that is how these things tend to go.
Sunset through Telegraph Pass, just east of Yuma on I-8.