This photo was part of the same storm that brought snow to most of the images in this gallery. For this picture in particular, it was more of a plan-B situation. This same morning I saw the weather report which broke records up north. Flagstaff got 35" of snow this day, and Sedona got about a foot. Another bucket list location of mine is Sedona in the snow, so I woke up before 5am and tried to make it to snowy Sedona for sunrise. About 30 minutes into my drive up the interstate I encounted flurries of snow and an icy roadway ahead of me. What is normally a 75mph interstate through the scorching desert was now a desolated, frozen freeway. The roads were un-plowed and even the best of trucks woudn't have made it. I was dissapointed... I've waited years for Sedona to get any snow at all and now they have TOO MUCH. So I turned around and tried to make the best of the situation. It was only about 6am and the sun was still to rise. I made the drive to the east to see if any other, lower elevation mountains had gotten snow. I stumbled across the Superstitions by 9am and they were coated from top to bottom in snow, a sight I've always dreamt about but never fathomed would come to fruition. It's weird to think of having such a connection with something as lifeless as a mountain, but seeing these cliffs every day as mere shadows from 50 miles away, across an entire city, to now standing at their base, with nobody around, looking up to the snowy peak during a historic storm, it was a true sight to see, and an experience I'll never forget.
