Week 8: Canyon Light

The day before I left I promised Lonnie that I would go hiking every day I had off.  Now, it snowed like crazy on the first Sunday and we actually tried to go to Cedar Breaks but the road was really bad- so I'm granting myself that excuse, but other than that I have kept my word. Today we went on an absolutely stunning hike. There was literally no one else around and we hiked several miles along a creek bed and up through some canyons. The canyons started getting so tall and narrow that although it was mid day we were in total shade. Yet there would be places where the sun was shining directing in. Larry, one of the guys on the hike, mentioned  "the light in here must be constantly changing." I think that was a really kind of astute observation. The gap for the sun to shine is so narrow in some places that depending on the time of year and time of day the experience must be completely different. The places that find lights, like this little green tree, must be constantly shifting. Today it was of course just beautiful. The picture above shows a spot we climbed up to. It's really hard to tell scale with these pictures of massive rock- but if there were people in this picture they would look really tiny. I love the sun flare and the sheer power of the beam coming in through the top. The light in the shadow of the rock felt so cool and diffused and wonderful, and then whenever we hit sunshine the sunglasses went on and it seemed incredibly bright.