After a night of heavy snowing, I just had to point the car north and find some snow. Payson, Arizona, on the Mogollon Rim, is only 90 miles north of Phoenix, but it is up in the mountains, surrounded by ponderosa pines. About 60 miles north, I hit the snow line; there is something spectacular about a desert covered in snow.

The snow came down hard in Northern Arizona while it rained down south in Phoenix. The city of Payson is situated on the Mogollon Rim about 90 miles north of Phoenix, located in the largest stand of Ponderosa Pine trees in the United States.