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[Jackson]

Most of the snow has already melted Bob - mid to upper fifties the rest of the week with possible 60's on Friday and Saturday.

Bye bye snow.
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Story of the winter up here, too. Dismal in the valley.

 

[The Trout Whisperer]

Story of the winter up here, too. Dismal in the valley.

Crazy…nearly 90 today here in Austin…62 wakin up temp..avg is 66 and 48.

 

[scatman]

Out for my four mile walk this morning.


We had a terrible windy night on Wednesday and the wind blew off the paper shell of this bald faced hornets' nest


A Coopers Hawk

 

[Yvonne]

I can play with the volcano about once or twice a month

 

[Yvonne]

In between university, the eruptions, and work, I try to squeeze in some hikes.

Ka'u Desert

After finishing a 26-mile day hike across lava

Kamakai'a Hills

coastal exploration in HAVO

unexploded ordinance in the Ka'u desert

 

[b.stark]

In between university, the eruptions, and work, I try to squeeze in some hikes.

Ka'u Desert

After finishing a 26-mile day hike across lava

Kamakai'a Hills

coastal exploration in HAVO

unexploded ordinance in the Ka'u desert

Welcome back! Good to see you're still out playing in the lava.

 

[Yvonne]

Welcome back! Good to see you're still out playing in the lava.

Whenever I have the chance

 

[scatman]

Today marks the day that my surgeon told me that I could do anything that I wanted to do as far as hiking was concerned. So since my last hike before knee surgery was the Avenues Twin Peaks, I decided that it should be my first good hill climb since my surgery. Now originally, I had planned a backpacking trip for one night out on Antelope Island, but as the forecast continued to get worse for this afternoon and evening I had a change of plans. The forecast is calling for a 40% chance of rain and a high wind warning with gusts up to 60 mph, along with blowing dust. I didn't want to listen to the wind blow all night thus the switch to the Twin Peaks instead.

New marker near the trailhead. I had no idea that the trail was called the Tomahawk Trail


View of the Wasatch Front


Tomahawk Trail


My hiking partners for the morning


Thistle


common storksbill and desert alyssum


First phlox of the year


The vile spurge!


Taking the long way to the top today


Vintage @TractorDoc and @Rockskipper !


Moving along the west side of the twins


Downtown SLC


Final push to the ridge


Some snow remains @Bob Be the last of it though as it is expected to hit 81 degrees next Thursday and Friday.


Dried up mule ears flower


The Dude Benchmark in the distance


Made it to the north twin


Making our way over to the south twin. I have to go pretty slow down steep descents at this point.


Good to be back on the south twin, checking out Grandview Peak


The northern foothills


The wind was blowing really hard and the ladies wanted to go.


Back down the way we came up


Today's camera was the Canon EOS D30, with a 3.1 megapixel sensor, released in October of 2000. This was a landmark camera as
it was Canon's first in-house design digital SLR. Going on 26 years and still ticking!


And back at the Sube

 

[Bob]

Flowers already???? nice. Can't get out yet, still snow and ice on the road.
Better not have picked up that poptab...... its archeological now....

Youll be getting wind for sure...... right now its pretty much a whiteout up here....

 

[scatman]

Flowers already???? nice. Can't get out yet, still snow and ice on the road.
Better not have picked up that poptab...... its archeological now....

Youll be getting wind for sure...... right now its pretty much a whiteout up here....

Didn't end up getting too much wind out of it. It blew for may be two hours tops and no rain to speak of. I probably should have headed to Antelope for the night.