west desert canyons

Snow-covered Deseret Peak and the Stansbury Mountain Range

By Mia McPherson|January 29th, 2018|Categories: Stansbury Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: Captain Howard Stansbury, cliffs, Deseret Peak, Deseret Peak Wilderness, mountains, snow-covered, west desert canyons|

My only keeper images of the morning were a few photos I took of the Stansbury Mountain Range and Deseret Peak and even those weren't that great but I loved seeing the snow-covered mountains.

Mercur Canyon Rock Squirrel

By Mia McPherson|February 14th, 2017|Categories: Mercur Canyon, Rock Squirrels, Tooele County, Utah, West Desert|Tags: canyon, Ephedra, ground squirrels, Mormon Tea, Oquirrh Mountains, Otospermophilus variegatus, Rock Squirrel, rocks, squirrels, west desert canyons|

I didn't have much luck at all with birds yesterday in the west desert canyons but I did spot and photograph a Rock Squirrel in Mercur Canyon.