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Eryn Wyld @erynwyld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Upper Hermosa drainage above Purgatory. 🍁 🍃 🍂 #HighDesertLife

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Tramonte's TrailPhotos @tramontes-t-photos.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Aspens turning color in a lemon-lime pattern of green turning to yellow, beyond a meadow along a forest service road north of #Flagstaff, #Arizona, with the San Francisco Peaks in the background. #ECK #landscapephotography #Autumn #Fall #roadtrip #backroads #WestCoastKin

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Tramonte's TrailPhotos @tramontes-t-photos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Taken yesterday near a trailhead for the #ArizonaTrail off a forest service road near Flagstaff, #Arizona. Note some aspens are still fully green leaved, some fully dropped, and some near peak yellow in the distant mountain foothills. For #ForestFriday. #ECK #landscapephotography #hiking #trails

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have stared at Dunn Peak on a map for months. Today I made it up to the top. 12,500 feet. We will see if the incoming storm rules out a 13k peak this year or not. Still, the view from Dunn was fantastic.

A pile of rocks at the summit with clouds and neighboring mountains beyond.

Sun and clouds create dramatic lighting toward Middle Mountain.

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A very general idea for best peak fall colors this weekend: lower mountain areas (7-9k), San Juans, higher foothills. Probably past peak in most areas above 9-10k. Open to your insight as well, basing this in part off your observations (thank you)! #COwx

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The USGS map store had a sale of maps for $1 each one time. I picked up a copy of Tau Tho Alpha's drawings from Yosemite locations. It hangs framed in my hallway as one of my favorite things ever.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The choice is yours. You've earned it either way.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Such a beautiful part of the world.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sometimes the San Juans can be pretty dang dramatic.

Fall color and mountains and big storm clouds.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You are getting so close to Mountain Goat!

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pretty old photo, but this view from Boulder Mountain in Utah probably wins as my favorite sunset photo yet.

Spruce fades to Utah rocky landscape as the horizon glows red.

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Emily J. Francis @emilyjfrancis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Couple of days in the field measuring tree density, forest cover and ladder fuel cover in post-thinning and -prescribed fire treatments for PhD student @colinmast.bsky.social’s GRIN project

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well done! That looks like a beautiful spot. Was the France contact Christian or Larry? I just got back from Northern Arizona doing 16 SOTA summits this week. Would love to hear about your setup!

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ronscowi1.bsky.social @ronscowi1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our hike today with our grandkids to Lost Lake (11,900’), just below the Continental Divide, San Isabel National Forest, CO. Pikes Peak is visible in the distance of the second photo.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

An insanely beautiful couple of days hiking the volcanic cinder cones of northern Arizona. I've seen coyote, pronghorn, roadrunner, and a jackrabbit.

A cinder cone in the foreground with a setting sun over the grasslands of northern Arizona.

Another setting sun photo as the folds of a cinder cone set into shadow.

Clouds envelop the San Francisco Peaks before revealing a snow-covered peak.

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DeniseG @denisegutzmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The US Monthly Drought Outlook for October shows drought may persist in parts of the West, upper Midwest, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. Drought may improve/be removed in the Northern Plains, southern US and Northeast. No drought development expected #drought 🧪 www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/exp...

The U.S. Monthly Drought Outlook shows where drought may persist, improve, be removed, or develop over the next month.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Internet is for sandhill crane content.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you ever planned time off work weeks in advance with the goal of hiking a bunch only to have persistent rain every day? No? Me neither, but it is raining and I would be hiking some cinder cones if it stopped.

Consistent cloud cover over bunchgrass hills and ponderosa pine forest.

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myscenicdrives.com @myscenicdrives.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chesler Park Trail, in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah. So much going on in every direction... #RockinTuesday #Utah #Mighty5 #rockformation #hiking #roadtrip

Fascinating rock formations in Chesler Park Trail, Needles District of Canyonlands National Park.

Fascinating rock formations along Chesler Park Trail, in the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park, Utah.

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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

❄️ Snow is already accumulating across the peaks of the San Juans in Colorado, and New Mexico could be next! The Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico could see around an inch or two of snow above 10,000 feet Wednesday night into Thursday morning! #NMwx

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is something magical about confiers under aspen canopies.

A seral aspen stand with young spruce infill.

A Christmas tree of Engelmann spruce is spotlighted by the sun in front of yellow fall aspen color.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moraine was high on my list for possible dog names.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Example 100 of Colorado bears are hungry y'all. This one comes from Durango.

A bear peeled back the plastic lid of a dumpster.

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Public Lands Day!

My child hikes in the Mount Shasta Wilderness

My pup in the Shasta Trinity National Forest

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I made it up to Navajo Lake. The new designated campsites and signage look great.

Navajo Lake looking appropriately moody.

Sign text
Navajo Lake Basin
No campfires
Camp in marked sites only

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My painting RIDGWAY VISTA

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The snow and low-hanging clouds in the high country today were moody and mysterious. Color change has started.

A few misty clouds hang over yellow and green aspen covered hillsides.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hoping to spend some time in the high country today to confirm the leaves are still there.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

2500 tons of salt. Sent me to some time-wasting searches on whether Great Lakes bulk carriers were already carrying similar weights of coal, grain, iron ore, etc. Maybe not quite, but close. The biggest 20th century lakers (many built in Sturgeon Bay, WI) could carry over 80,000 tons of cargo.

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Dan Kinghorn @dankinghorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In the farmland here in SE Idaho a pair of Sandhill Cranes take to the air! 🪶🦉 #Nature #Photography #Birds #Birdoftheday #Flyingbirds

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you see a doppelganger of your first pup.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

May improve! May improve! May improve!

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pretty good looking Quercus macrocarpa.

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David K7DMJ @thedavejohnson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The glaciers that formed this landscape are gone, but not entirely. The rock glacier below the summit of Mt Timpanogos was recently studied by geophysicists from University of Utah: a significant body of ice lies below those rocks. #photography #landscape #glacier #geology #hiking #utah

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Easy: Buying 20lbs of roasted green chilies. Tiring: Processing 20lbs of green chilies.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 11/09/2026

Water from the Colorado River is getting scarce — and more expensive for everyone. www.theverge.com/science/9935...

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Arizona’s lifeline for chip manufacturing is drying up

Water is about to get more expensive in America’s new silicon valley.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The highlight of my day was seeing a herd of elk and listening to some bugling.

Eight elk graze below trees burnt in the Babylon Fire in southeast Utah.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

SmartWater is a thinly disguised water bottle company.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

While unlikely to be a state champ, this pinyon has the largest diameter I've seen for its species.

A pinus edulis standing almost 40 feet tall and 40"+ diameter at 4.5ft off the ground. A normal-sized human for scale.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Houseboats on cinder blocks in the desert always feel Mad Max-ish post-apocalyptic.

A Welcome to Ticaboo sign highlighting that it is the Gateway to North Lake Powell.

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Nick Mustoe @nickmustoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There is a Mountain Goats lyric about how a weekend in Utah isn't going to fix what's wrong with us. That might be true, but if you're a fan of mountains and canyons, it could still be a pretty great weekend.

Hog Canyon along Highway 95. Red rock and a wealth of green cottonwoods and brush in the canyon bottom.

A reservoir view leading to a scene of setting sun over the Henries.

A view from the Little Rockies toward the Colorado River.

The Milky Way Galaxy behind a juniper tree.

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Emily Dolhansky @emilydolhansky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

[pounding fists on the table] he-li torch, he-li torch

A helicopter carrying a flaming torch in order to carry out a burn operation.

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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Helped measure baby trees planted after the 2020 labor day fires as part of an ambitious USFS study on assisted migration for climate adaptation with 4 different seed sources planted in each of 32 sites spanning WA/OR/CA. research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects...

mountain landscape from the viewpoint of a clearing that had been burned and logged with green groundcover of ferns and planted trees.

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Open Ponderosa Pine forest on Mt Falcon today 🌿

Scattered ponderosa pine trees against blue sky

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