The weather in the Four Corners Country was normal for May, which is to say it was absolutely abnormal. Following a long, hot and dry spell, the winds moved in, whipping the orange dust of the Colorado Plateau into a sand-blast to the face — and the rapidly melting snowpack. The airborne dust turned the sky into an orange veil that captured light. Then …
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