At the End of the Rainbow

Fall Color Report, High Sierra

Rainbow Lodge, I-80 (9/23/18) Robert Kermen
Aspen, Floriston, I-80 (9/23/18) Robert Kermen

Gold is supposed to be found at the end of a rainbow, and that’s exactly what color spotter Robert Kermen discovered off I-80, on returning to Nevada. Aspen were glittering with gold and lime at Rainbow Lodge.

Further up the highway, approaching Floriston, a grove of aspen, which Kermen calls the “aspen flow” due to the way it flows through a gully, was saturated with gold. Despite Kermen assessing these locations as being 60% turned, I-80 is not yet Near Peak, as many other areas along the route remain Patchy. 

Interstate 80 – Patchy (10-50%)

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