Monday, July 27, 2009

Rainy Day in the Uintas

It may have been sunny and 95 degrees in Salt Lake yesterday, but at Mirror Lake it was 51 degrees and raining. I had thought about hiking up Bald Mountain, but that's not a good place to be in a thunderstorm. Today I read that a woman went missing there over the weekend. The sheriff found her car at the Bald Mountain trailhead this morning. From KSL.com:


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Search teams looking in
the Bald Mountain
area for missing woman
July 27th, 2009 @ 5:12pm

SUMMIT COUNTY -- Search teams are looking (in) a remote area of Summit County for a missing Salt Lake City woman. Family members last saw Gina Ramos Trujillo, 48, at the Soapstone Campground Saturday just before noon.

Monday morning, deputies found her vehicle at the Bald Mountain trailhead, but at this point there is no sign of her.

Trujillo is 5 feet tall and weighs approximately 145 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing grey sweatpants, a light brown T-shirt and tennis shoes. If you have seen Trujillo, you are asked to call the Summit County Sheriff's Office at 435-615-3600.
















This snowbank blocks the trail about halfway up the mountain.














This is what the trail looked like last week at the snowbank.















This is what the weather looked like yesterday from inside my car.















A lot of the early-spring flowers are gone, but it's still spring up here. The meadow just across Hwy 50 from the Mirror Lake turn-off is full of all colors of flowers.















Some rude person parked in my favorite beaver-watching spot, so I spent a couple hours just looking at flowers and trees. Here are a few:





















Just below the Bald Mountain lookout.
























































































It looks like Mirror Lake itself got a real workout this Pioneer Day weekend.



5 comments:

Unknown said...

Are you going to help look for the missing woman?

MAstle said...

Looks like they found the woman Monday night about 10 miles north of her car and suffering from dehydration but otherwise ok.

Mick and Tiff said...

I wish I could read your commentary on the last photo but it won't let me make it bigger... I am sure you wrote some funny things!

MAstle said...
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MAstle said...

I can't figure out why my pictures won't enlarge. You can see the full-size pictures in my gallery at www.gallery.me.com/michaelastle. There's a photo album called Mirror Lake Highway that has a mess of pictures, including this one.