Wheeler Peak is a 13000' (3900m) peak in eastern Nevada (2400m above the desert floor - That's still pretty tall) and is perennially snow-capped, quite odd for the high desert. It is about 70 miles (about 110km) from this viewpoint in Utah. In front of it stands the diminutive Crystal Peak, a knob of - get this - quartz sandstone only 800' (240m) high, only 26 miles (42km) distant. In the foreground is part of the Sevier Desert.
This photo was taken back in May 2017, and has been only very minimally processed, and only to minimize the airborne dust/haze present at the time. For less than a minute, just as the rising sun clears the mountain ridge where I stood, it glows "neon pink".
Wheeler Peak is a 13000' (3900m) peak in eastern Nevada (2400m above the desert floor - That's still pretty tall) and is perennially snow-capped, quite odd for the high desert. It is about 70 miles (about 110km) from this viewpoint in Utah. In front of it stands the diminutive Crystal Peak, a knob of - get this - quartz sandstone only 800' (240m) high, only 26 miles (42km) distant. In the foreground is part of the Sevier Desert.
This photo was taken back in May 2017, and has been only very minimally processed, and only to minimize the airborne dust/haze present at the time. For less than a minute, just as the rising sun clears the mountain ridge where I stood, it glows "neon pink".
Yes, it actually looks like that.