Twisted red sandstone flowing like frozen waves, honeycombed canyon walls carved by centuries of wind and water, lava tubes... Snow Canyon State Park feels like being teleported to another world.
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An unplanned detour that frequently felt like teleporting to Mars. Enjoy a new highlight video, and my fond memories of Snow Canyon State Park.Jason Evangelho (Seasons of Jason)
Roads have the ability to take us to fantastic places, but it's a partnership: they break a path, but we have to walk, bike, drive, or fly upon that path.
Road to Monument Valley canvas print -- fineartamerica.com/featured/ro…
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #travel #utah #southwest #adventure #nature #wallart #print #landscape #west #western #fedigiftshop
Today I'm putting together a blog and video about my visit to Snow Canyon State Park, so I figured I'd share 2 of my favorite photos from there. The landscape left a very deep, positive imprint on my memories and I can't wait to go back there!
This one was special. "Sanctuary" was instrumental in my decision to eventually embrace a nomadic life, and call the open road my home. As of this writing, that next season begins in less than two weeks. I'll always be grateful to that wonderful land, and its caretakers, for being an important catalyst to my future adventures and life experiences.
seasonsofjason.com/sanctuary-a…
(There's also a new video to watch)
Serendipity is actively happening all around us. I don’t doubt it any more.Jason Evangelho (Seasons of Jason)
Eye-popping fall colors, otherworldly canyon rims, and magical hoodoos. I'm quickly falling helplessly in love with Utah.Jason Evangelho (Seasons of Jason)
"Eye-popping fall colors, otherworldly canyon rims, and magical hoodoos. I'm quickly falling helplessly in love with Utah."
seasonsofjason.com/cedar-break…
A story (and a video highlight reel) about the day I started falling in love with Utah: seasonsofjason.com/cedar-break…
Eye-popping fall colors, otherworldly canyon rims, and magical hoodoos. I'm quickly falling helplessly in love with Utah.Jason Evangelho (Seasons of Jason)
Here's a contrarian take on a popular structure to photograph in canyon country. At the right time of day the sun reflects off of the canyon floor & lights up the cliff overhang turning it a bright orange & making it look like flames. Of course, most images you see are grossly oversaturated to enhance the effect. But here it is in B&W so you can enjoy the textures & contrast rather than oversaturated color.
#Archeology #Utah #Canyon #Desert #MonoChrome #BlackAndWhite #Photography #Darktable
🐟✈️ The #Utah Division of #Wildlife Resources uses specialized #aircraft to stock remote high-altitude #lakes with fingerling #trout.
The method ensures survival rates are higher than ground transportation for #fish being moved to inaccessible areas.
👉 discoverwildlife.com/fish/aeri…
#fish #aviation #conservation #ecology #outdoors #nature #science #biology
She approached each new day with confidence, strength, and joy.
Valley of the Goddess canvas print -- pictorem.com/2642977/valley-of…
Free shipping in the U.S and Canada.
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #utah #morning #woman #beauty #goddess #nature #dawn #sunrise #landscape #southwest #fedigiftshop #FirstFridayArtWalk
Gouverneur Cox: Der etwas andere Republikaner aus Utah
Trumps MAGA-Bewegung beherrscht die Republikanische Partei nahezu vollständig. Utahs Gouverneur Cox ist eine Ausnahme. Sein Credo: den Gegner respektieren und nicht niederbrüllen. Von Carsten Kühntopp.
➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…
#USA #Utah #Republikaner
Hmmm. It's quiet here. Not a lot of people. In fact, I haven't seen another hiker all morning.
The stream makes its easy, peaceful way through the landscape, not in a hurry, not in a hurry at all.
Neither am I.
Hop Valley canvas print -- pictorem.com/2631878/hop-valle…
Free shipping in the USA and Canada.
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #yearforart #zion #nationalpark #utah #travel #nature #hiking #peace #landscape #fedigiftshop #southwest #decor #wallart
Arches National Park Planning Guidewww.nps.gov
Look Beyond the Tree
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, UT
East of Muley Point looking south toward the Monument Valley area. In case you are unfamiliar, those two light stripes are a double-track road—light due to wheels crushing the small rocks into dust.
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏜️🌊 #AntelopeCanyon is described by #Navajo Medicine Man Adair Klopfenstein as the breathing holes of the #earth where the winds reside.
These slot #canyons form over tens of thousands of years as turbulent #water and #sand carve through the #landscape. #Geology professor Dr. Kelin Whipple explains how flash floods transport boulders and create vortices that cut deep into the earth.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/antelope-canyo…
#arizona #climate #coloradoriver #energy #erosion #geology #indigenous #nativeamericans #rain #rivers #rocks #science #storm #utah #weather #tksst #video
🏜️🌊 #AntelopeCanyon is described by #Navajo Medicine Man Adair Klopfenstein as the breathing holes of the #earth where the winds reside.
These slot #canyons form over tens of thousands of years as turbulent #water and #sand carve through the #landscape. #Geology professor Dr. Kelin Whipple explains how flash floods transport boulders and create vortices that cut deep into the earth.
👉 Learn more: seethis.tv/post/antelope-canyo…
#arizona #climate #coloradoriver #energy #erosion #geology #indigenous #nativeamericans #rain #rivers #rocks #science #storm #utah #weather #tksst #video
#Trump Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
“They’re ripping the HQ out of DC and shipping it to Salt Lake City, #Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America.
They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Pinchot built the system over a century ago…”
It was a quiet little stream, making its merry little way through the landscape.
Not in a hurry. Not in a rush. Not worried about being a mighty river.
Just making its merry little way through the landscape, as was I.
Hop Valley canvas print -- fineartamerica.com/featured/ho…
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #zion #utah #landscape #nature #hiking #travel #notAI #fedigiftshop #USA
Another beautiful photo from the Uinta Mountains of #Utah by my colleague Eric Glassco. You can read his illustrated essay about rock glaciers in the #Uintas here:
maxexodus.com/rock-glacier-res…
#geology #geomorphology #landforms #mountains #landscapephotography
Wilderness photographer Eric Glassco recounts his trip into Utah's Uinta Mountains with an international team of geologists to document the impact of modern climate conditions on rock glaciers.Max Exodus Wilderness Photography
From the archive: “Room for the Big Deep Bend” — Scowercroft’s Never Rip Overalls – Room for the Big Deep Bend.
gdanmitchell.com/2013/02/14/ro…
#photo #photography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #streetPhotography #photographyLovers #fineArtPhotography #travel #utah #sign
“Room for the Big Deep Bend” — Scowercroft’s Never Rip Overalls – Room for the Big Deep Bend At about the time I made this photograph, we were staying in Torrey, Utah for a …G Dan Mitchell Photography
Just sat here and watched this cloud form and then dissipate, with a spectacular iridescence along the way. The camera captured maybe 25% of what my eyes perceived.
Happy to report, I was perfectly stoned, and I just sat here communing with nature through cloud watching.
Thank you for the show, Mother Earth. Thank you for the rainbow, goddess Iris. 🌬️☁️🌤️
#photography
#WestJordanUT
#Utah
#CloudPhotography
#CloudWatching
#CloudIrisation
Entrance to Devil's Garden
Arches National Park, UT
#SilentSunday #photo #NationalPark #travel #landscape #redrock #Utah
San Rafael Reef
Ran Rafael Swell Recreation Area, UT
#SaturdayScenery #photo #landscape #geology #PublicLands #Utah
Blossom of Navajo Bridge Pricklypear Cactus
Poison Springs Canyon, UT
#FlowerFriday #photo #nature #cactus #Utah
“My concern is that the government that I pay into, and the conservation organizations that I’ve trusted my whole life as a hunter in Utah, are willfully creating programs that are destructive to our communities,” [sheep herder Andy] Rice told High Country News.
hcn.org/articles/utahs-new-stu…
#MountainLions #Utah #conservation
Critics say the state's attempt to boost ungulate populations lacks scientific grounding and transparency.Kylie Mohr (High Country News)
Utah’s new study aims to kill ‘as many cougars as possible’
hcn.org/articles/utahs-new-stu…
#utah #cougars #resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #learnsomething #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #indigenous
Critics say the state's attempt to boost ungulate populations lacks scientific grounding and transparency.Kylie Mohr (High Country News)
I worked with a great team of collaborators to produce a uniquely long #paleoclimate record from #caves in northern #utah. We dated stalagmites to show that mountain #permafrost repeatedly expanded during glacial periods and disappeared during interglacials in sync with orbital climate cycles over the past ~600,000 years. These results provide rare long-term constraints on alpine permafrost sensitivity and help place modern permafost thaw into a deeper climatic context. The paper was published in Quaternary Research; if you do not have access and wish to get a copy, feel free to send me a private request.
doi.org/10.1017/qua.2026.10076
#geology #climate #cave #caves #mountain #mountains #quaternary
The obscure "Bear Ice Cave" in northern #utah contains ice nearly 6,000 years old. I just published a paper showing that this ice records how the fraction of #winter #snowpack that is lost to sublimation before it can melt each each year has increased over time.
SALT LAKE CITY — With sunshine breaking through and temperatures climbing, Utah gardeners are itching to get their hands back in the soil.Gardening (All For Gardening)
Cedar Point Road
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, UT
Looking east out across Valley of the Gods. Ute Mountain in Colorado can just be seen through the haze.
Large, spectacular #waterfalls make great images for calendars, posters, and landscape paintings. But I am charmed by smaller cascades, like this one on the Virgin River in Zion National Park, #Utah. Though often overlooked, these modest waterfalls have their own enchanting appeal. Attending to the small things in life often brings large rewards.
#ZionNationalPark #rivers #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #SacredWonderland
“Red Rock Mountains, Autumn Foliage” — Fall foliage along a creek below red rock mountains, Capitol Reef National Park.
This photograph contains the quintessential color palette of the Southwest in general and this Utah landscape in particular: red rock, green trees (here starting to pick up the golden tones of autumn), blue sky, and brown water. I made the photograph while looking for scenes of non-iconic subjects at Capitol Reef…more: gdanmitchell.com/2026/03/17/re…
#capitolreef #southwest #utah #photo #photography #photographer #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature
Today in Labor History March 17, 1968: The U.S. Army Chemical Corps killed over 6,000 sheep while illegally testing a nerve gas agent at the Dugway Proving Ground in Skull Valley, Utah. A 1998 report, the by Air Force Press was the "first documented admission" from the Army that a nerve agent killed the sheep at Skull Valley. The incident inspired Stephen King's novel “The Stand.”
#utah #chemicalweapons #wmd #WeaponsOfMassDestruction #nerveagent #army #airforce #literary #stephenking #historicalfiction #books #author #writer #horror @bookstadon
My colleague Eric Glassco published a beautifully illustrated essay about rock glaciers in the spectacular Uinta Mountains of #utah and the work I and my collaborators are doing to better understand these mysterious #landforms. If you’re interested in #mountains and #mountain #landscapephotography you can find it here:
maxexodus.com/rock-glacier-res….
#geology #landscapes #water #rockglaciers #mountainmonday
Wilderness photographer Eric Glassco recounts his trip into Utah's Uinta Mountains with an international team of geologists to document the impact of modern climate conditions on rock glaciers.Max Exodus Wilderness Photography
Think about roads. Think about how very many of them there are on this planet, from freeways to highways to country roads to primitive gravelways running through isolated landscapes.
They all go somewhere, all pass by and through landscapes that we sometimes observe and see, and other times rush through without noticing anything at all.
On the Temple Road framed print -- fineartamerica.com/featured/on…
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #travel #utah #zion #nature #trees
La Sal Mountains
Buckeye Reservoir, CO
#MountainMonday #photo #landscape #PublicLands #Colorado #Utah
"An vielen Orten der Welt entstehen gerade Rechenzentren, auch in Utah. Dabei sitzt dieser US-Bundesstaat praktisch auf dem Trockenen und hat gar nicht genug Wasser zur Kühlung all der Server."
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#ökologie #rechenzentren #usa #utah #wasser #digitales
An vielen Orten der Welt entstehen gerade Rechenzentren, auch in Utah. Dabei sitzt dieser US-Bundesstaat praktisch auf dem Trockenen und hat gar nicht genug Wasser zur Kühlung all der Server. Von Carsten Kühntopp.Carsten Kühntopp (tagesschau.de)
In an unprecedented move, Utah’s congressional delegation has introduced a resolution to throw out the resource management plan for the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.Native Organizers Alliance Action Fund (Action Network)
North Fork of the Virgin River, Zion National Park, Utah. April 1984.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #nature #Utah #nationalparks #Southwest #river #mountains
Kelly Grade of Smokey Mountain Road
Grand Staircase - Escalante National Monument, UT
Look carefully and you can see the rest of the road in the middle distance.
Nine states had their warmest winter ever recorded
In addition to a lack of snowfall compared to the historical average, these nine states had their warmest year on record.
By Jesse Ferrell, Mar 11, 2026
"Winter barely showed up the way it usually does for millions of people from #Oregon to #Texas. Nine states logged their warmest meteorological winter on record, defined as Dec. 1 through the end of February. These dates are agreed upon by meteorologists for record-keeping and comparison purposes, but the historical average dates of the lowest temperatures varies from city to city.
"NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, which has records back to 1895, said this winter was the warmest in Oregon, #Nevada, #Arizona, #Utah, #Wyoming, #Colorado, #NewMexico, Texas and #Oklahoma."
Read more:
accuweather.com/en/winter-weat…
#USWx #ExtremeHeat #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeIsReal #ClimateDiary
