ROAD TRIP ...

 ... in May 2005 my brother and I flew south, Looking for Snow* ...

     

Wasatch Mountains from air ... Utah had the best ski year ever.

  

Uinta Mountains???
     
 

    

Andy in Shreveport, LA ...
     

Reporting from Amarillo ...

  

Santa Rosa ...
     

Jeff at wheel, Rio Chama, NM ...

  

 ... first sighting ... Sangre de Christo Mountains, NM
     

Wild turkey from Road, Colorado ...

  

Andy snowboarding on my ... MAP!!!
     

Got wet bunz ... we found snow ... Wolf Creek Pass, CO

  

Colorado tunnel
     

Majestic Colorado Rocky Mountain Bighorn Ram ...

  

 ... headwaters of the Rio Grande.
     

Colorado, the Elk State ...

  

 ... breaking thru crusted snow, near Slumgullion Pass, 11,361 ft

     

Uncompahgre Peak ...14,309 ft

  

Unita `January' ... in May.
     
Andy at Flaming Gorge ...  
     
  Andy in Tremonton ... as we went through, Ogden residents were being asked not to flush their toilets ... so much snow and rain.  Earlier, Idaho was worried about a drought.
     

(* ... actually we were acquiring my other brother's Jeep Cherokee Sport, and transporting certain of his possessions to safe haven in Boise ... but it made for a good story from which I developed a movie I submitted to the Banff Mountain Film Festival.)