AlpineVistas Community Blog

Mike and Draba stroll along the Green Pond trail, surrounded by mountain maples that are showing the first signs of fall color.

The warmth of summer is fading away, quickly replaced  by the crisp, cool air of fall.  The days are growing shorter but there’s still lots of time for great outdoor recreation.  The best part of living along Utah’s Wasatch Back is the variety of recreation available year-round.  This weekend cycling and hiking were our sports of choice.  Of course Draba prefers hiking to biking!

Biking with friends in the Ogden Valley.

Spots of mountain maple red dot the landscape below the peaks of Snowbasin

We ususally get monsoon rains in August but this year they came in July, and August was very dry.  Now it’s September and as we close in on autumn the monsoons have arrived - at least for a few days.  The storm offered up some great clouds, a rainbow here and there (check out www.utahfallcolors.com for a great rainbos photo on the Leaf Peeper blog), and much needed rain. 

Autumn in northern Utah and the Wasatch Back can be amazing.  You have to stay alert because the changing colors can be long lasting or gone in a few days.  The mountain maples are the first to go and they are starting their annual change right now.  Stay tuned for more autumn news.

This video helps me remember how important it is to always take my cloth bags into the store when I go shopping.  Hopefully it will help you to remember as well.  Click on the link to watch:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSD21zp89zM