The American West: "What The Heck, Nature?!" [photo essay]

On days that I feel trapped in my city­grid­scape–dodg­ing blasts of wet and heavy air and effec­tively hiber­nat­ing through what surely must be the last days of the longest win­ter in mem­ory (a win­ter that has included both a cold­pocolypse and a snowpocolypse)–I need reminders that these United States include stun­ning nat­ural won­ders that I could get to for the mere price of one large bur­rito, one all-da…