It’s evident at Alta there’s a change in the season. The last of the summer’s wildflowers have dried and the mountain shrubs and willows have mostly turned to yellow and burnt-orange colors. Fall colors will continue but it’s hard to say when peak might be or how long it might last. There’s a “science” to the fall colors and a combination of factors determines the duration as well as the brilliance.
Some of the things we’re observing are the abundance of sunflowers that grace the roadside in Little Cottonwood Canyon, the light that is lower on the horizon and minus the weekends of Oktoberfest at Snowbird, a real sense of solitude in the mountains. The change of season doesn’t happen in Salt Lake City for another month but in the meantime people flock to the canyons on weekends to see the slopes covered with aspens, scrub oak and other trees that are in their natural splendor.
Happy Fall a few days early!
