"A lot of people really love the area for hiking, cycling & angling, extremely popular & well-loved. It's also really important for #biodiversity, for various species at risk, like bull trout & #WestSlope #CutThroatTrout. Also a really important place in terms of #WaterSupply."

https://www.podcastics.com/episode/309464/link/

#NaturalCapital #Kananaskis #Clearcut #Logging #Forests #biodiversity #Climate #watersheds #KCountry #YYC

A picture of Yankee Boy Basin, also showing some of the road leading up to it. It is called Camp Bird Road. Road crews consider it secondary maintenance, handling the main roads first.

Because of the snow we've gotten they've abandoned efforts, calling the snow "uncontrollable". First time I've ever heard that.

#photography #Landscape #Colorado #WestSlope #WaterfallWednesday

Snowing in #WestSlope at ~415ft elevation, sticking a bit in the yard, but not to cement or the roads (yet).

#pdx #pdxtst

#WestSlope ~415ft elevation

There's a big ball of fire in the sky. I'm not sure what it is, but it hurts my eyes when I look at it. 🤡

#pdx #pdxtst

#WestSlope ~415ft elevation

It's snowing? It's not really sticking, but there's something white on the ground from earlier. Did it hail? Was that a freakin' mythosaur? 🤷‍♂️

#pdx #pdxtst

light snow in #WestSlope at ~415ft elevation, not sticking (yet)

#pdx #pdxtst #déjàvu

Some pictures of the yard.

#pdx #pdxtst #WestSlope

power is out. #PGE reports the outage started at ~4:56 AM, estimates restoration of service at ~10:00 AM

cable/Internet is up. #Comcast #Xfinity

it's a tiny bit windy here in #WestSlope

#pdx #pdxtst