Friends, this coming Thursday, 9/22, is the fall equinox, on which the last sunset of summer – or the first sunset of fall – occurs at 6:53 PM. Some of us will be on top of Badger Mountain to celebrate this celestial event and to acknowledge the waning days of too much sunshine and heat.

We’ll leave from the lower (gravel) Badger Mountain Trailhead parking lot, near the top of Queensgate Dr, by 6:00. We’ll go up the Canyon Trail to get to the western summit of Badger Mt, at the second set of towers facing Rattlesnake Mt, hopefully before the sun sets. If you want to walk briskly, you could leave later than 6:00. Bring a friend, appropriate clothing, and a flashlight in case you linger on the mountaintop. Hope to see you there. There will be no moon in our sky that evening, not until it rises at 11:21 PM.