All this blown-in wildfire smoke is a huge bummer. I mean, not so much a bummer as for the poor people in California and Oregon where the smoke is coming from, of course. But for once Utah has done really well at not having so many of its own wildfires (@#$%^&* human-caused Pack Creek one notwithstanding) and yet it is by far the most smoke-filled summer since we've been here - and it isn't even Utah smoke!
It's just a bummer because the reason we moved here is because of the outdoors opportunities and all this smoke is forcing us to curtail outdoors activities. Case in point: last weekend, when Milton and I did our Dimple Dell walk (around 4ish miles) and H rode his road bike for about an hour early in the morning before the skies got completely choked.
Sunday I drove up to Alta and did my go-to exercise loop: park above Albion; walk up the Summer Road a bit; cut over to the Albion meadows trail; connect to the Catherine's Pass trail; climb up to the Sunset Peak junction and then across the top of Supreme Bowl; descend via the Supreme access road through the campground; and then back through lower Sunnyside. The last time I'd done this loop was July, when the wildflowers - and the hoi polloi - were out in force. This time, the flowers were definitely past peak and I saw way, way fewer people (yay!)
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