now, a lot of people look across canyon land, say, in southeast utah where this picture is, and it's not really clear how you get around, how you get from place to place. but if you know this place well enough you know right over this lip of white sandstone, if you go right over the ledge and hang your foot over this side, you can't see it but you can feel it with the tip of your foot, there's a little toe hold down there, then if you get on that toe hold you drop your other foot down and there's another toe hold. it happens a thousand years ago somebody carved just a series of toe holds down this rock face. and you climb down those and they lead to a ledge and the ledge wraps around underneath here and it drops down into another spot that you go through a saddle and around to the other side and through another saddle and down and around. it's this circuitous route that's constantly carrying you down deeper and deeper and this is the landscape is just covered with these. i don't take maps out there any more out into this place because it's all memory. this place is the map. i went do

new mexico and colorado, utah, rain and then mountain snows, some of this has been on the hefty side. when it is storming in the southwest, you've got a ridge in the southeast. that means pretty quiet around here. temperatures at or above normal. this is a pattern that is not conducive for snow around here. it is just too warm and the storms generally track toward the great lakes. high pressure, well, this morning, it is in ohio. it will be with us today. no problems as this is going to protect us for the clouds and the moisture out west. then the next storm system is going to head up toward the great lakes. maybe bringing us some rain around here by late thursday in the form of showers and possibly friday night, might be cold enough for just some wet snow to mix in. 50 degrees today. not much. precip amounts look light. tonight, we'll be back in the 20s and 30s. 52 tomorrow. by thursday, mid to maybe upper 50s with a chance of late showers. friday, a second wave comes. friday night, saturday morning, could be some showers, maybe a few wet flakes. cooler temperatures saturday and sunday. generally be dry after the early precip. with highs in the mid-40s. le