Mooney Falls is a 200-foot tall waterfall just one mile downstream from the more popular Havasu Falls. Both are located on the Havasupai Reservation in the Grand Canyon and sees heavy traffic due to the fact it’s a very desert atmosphere complete with massive red cliffs, prickly-pear cactus, cottonwood trees and plenty of sand.… Keep reading...
Here’s another from last month’s quick jaunt up into the Wind River Mountains. I was camping at Green River Lakes which is an extraordinarily scenic location and makes for a great trailhead to the backcountry of the Wind River Range. The lakes are a series of natural lakes along the Green River, which originates deep in this particular mountain range.… Keep reading...
In digging back into my archives, I didn’t get too far before noticing I hadn’t posted anything from a short trip to the Green River Lakes back in July. I was almost to the campgrounds when I saw this moose standing in the middle of the Green River, which originates up in the Wind River Mountains in Western Wyoming and meanders its way down to Central Utah where it meets up with the Colorado River in Canyonlands National Park.… Keep reading...
I normally wouldn’t post this late at night, but I’m too excited about this one. When I was a kid there was a big solar storm and supposedly we could see the Aurora Borealis all the way down in New Orleans, Louisiana. I didn’t see the bright lights that you see in the photos so I was a little disappointed and shrugged it off, not actually taking a close look.… Keep reading...
When I first moved to the Jackson, WY area I saw an incredible scene that would have made a killer panorama – a golden light hitting clouds of a winter storm over distant mountains as a line of a dozen or so elk walked along the top of a ridge in front of it all.… Keep reading...
On the second night out this past weekend we spent dusk at Mammoth Hot Springs waiting for the light of day to fade to take advantage of moonlight over the steamy landscape. I shot this panorama at the Upper Terrace as the colors in the distance were beginning to fade.… Keep reading...