More details here on the seeing conditions, if you are interested. I finally figured out that the 1/4-mile+ long guardrail on the road was cooling and contracting as the ‘pings’ occurred, the sound came from behind this view, and literally shot down into the valley, in a sort of three-dimensional ‘natural surround sound’ effect that was stunning. Once it started to get dark, I started hearing a strange, metallic ‘pinging’ sound that I couldn’t immediately identify. I spent this particular night overlooking the highway a few hundred meters from my ‘camp’, and it was windless and completely quiet, except for the occasional car (which could only be heard once it got down to the bottom of the valley floor). They were great experiences, far better than the night I spent at Goosenecks State Park Campground. Many would never consider ‘dispersed’ camping 100 meters off a state highway, and yet three nights of this trip were spent under said conditions: at Moki Dugway, Comb Ridge, and lastly on Red Mountain Pass up at 11,000′. I personally think as people interested in the environment and as photographers we take for granted the highways, roads and trails we routinely use to access what might otherwise be inaccessible areas. This image is from one of this country’s amazing pieces of road, UT State Highway 95 cutting through Comb Ridge near Blanding, UT. Once the galactic center of the Milky Way rose, it actually cast a diffuse shadow, which I could clearly see while passing one hand in front of another. This last cycle found me underneath incredibly fine conditions for shooting both transparency and clarity of the air provided ‘seeing’ conditions that I may never have witnessed in my life. I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the desert under the new moon lately, and Father Sky never seems to disappoint.
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