Wellsville fall colors
After crashing out of the Bear, I picked myself up by going for a short hike in the Wellsville Mountains. This range frames Cache Valley on the west side and is covered with bigtooth maple.
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The Wellsville Range draped in red maples.
The colors made my jaw drop. I lived in Cache Valley for 10 years and don't remember a better show.
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Closeup on pink and red maple leaves.
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Dark red chokecherry leaves.
Hobbling through this landscape and seeing the color change as the sunlight fluctuated improved my mood by several hundred percent.
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View across a sunlit pasture to red maple covered slopes under a partly stormy sky.