Utah’s Wasatch Range forms the granite backbone
of the Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons, sculpted
by alpine glaciers during the last ice age. Wasatch

can mean low pass over high range, the way
a saxophonist stretches on tip toe to reach the high notes
and crouches to find the low notes. The mountains

have lifted and stretched after millions of years
of painless folding and faulting, wearing and tearing.
The sax player’s knees are sore after every concert.