Winter’s first snows fell this fall day across the floor of the valley known as South Park, while autumnal colors still festooned the surrounding mountains. All of that was reduced by low visibility here, in fog and variably dense snowfall, to a bleakly evocative view of nearby shortgrass prairie whose growing season had expired, punctuated only by a single windmill. Even though this is a flat desert plain, it sits very high, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. Here we essentially were inside the snow-producing cloud, and a more-dense portion was moving northward toward us. Within less than a minute, the windmill was engulfed in denser fog and heavier snow, no longer visible.
5 S Fairplay CO (8 Oct 18) Looking SE
39.1526, -105.9989South Park Snow and Fog
Winter’s first snows fell this fall day across the floor of the valley known as South Park, while autumnal colors still festooned the surrounding mountains. All of that was reduced by low visibility here, in fog and variably dense snowfall, to a bleakly evocative view of nearby shortgrass prairie whose growing season had expired, punctuated only by a single windmill. Even though this is a flat desert plain, it sits very high, at an elevation of 10,000 feet. Here we essentially were inside the snow-producing cloud, and a more-dense portion was moving northward toward us. Within less than a minute, the windmill was engulfed in denser fog and heavier snow, no longer visible.
5 S Fairplay CO (8 Oct 18) Looking SE
39.1526, -105.9989