There are views, and canyons and bare basalt, and oh my…
The golden tints come from groves of quaking aspen, already in fall foliage and dropping their leaves which form shifting, milling drifts that are moved by the smallest breeze, or a passing boot.
Here is the yellow in near view, from rabbitbrush…and finally, one of the world’s tiniest lupine plant in the alpine zone around 9000′ elevation:
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