FROZEN IN TIME

A PORTFOLIO EDITED BY ROBERT STIEVE Faint tire tracks mark a forest road through aspens and evergreens in this Wayne Davis photograph. The road leads to Greens Peak, a prominent summit in Eastern Arizona's White Mountains. When the photo was made, in February, the temperature was -10 degrees.

DECEMBER 1961

Oak Creek flows beneath Cathedral Rock, one of the most recognizable landmarks of Red Rock Country, in this wintry shot by Ray Manley. He made the photo using a 5x7 Linhof camera and Ektachrome film.

DECEMBER 1953

DECEMBER 1946

This Josef Muench photo, titled simply Winter Mountains, was part of a landmark issue for Arizona Highways: Our December 1946 issue was the first nationally circulated consumer magazine published in all color, from cover to cover.

DECEMBER 1959

It Snowed Last Night at Grand Canyon, made by Esther Henderson, captures a wintry panorama from the South Rim's Maricopa Point. Henderson shot the photo early on a January morning, using a Deardorff view camera.

DECEMBER 1965 The road between Payson and Heber, in Mogollon Rim Country, was the setting for Wayne Davis' Winter Scene, Payson Country.

DECEMBER 1966 DECEMBER 1958

Esther Henderson captured Mist Blankets Grand Canyon in midJanuary, as a winter storm was clearing and before a layer of fog had lifted from the Canyon. This spot is between Powell Point and Hopi Point on the South Rim.

DECEMBER 1962 Melting snow forms a “lake” along the route from Springerville to McNary in the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona. Wayne Davis captured this shot, appropriately titled Brrr! It’s Cold, on a mid-April afternoon.

DECEMBER 1966

Darwin Van Campen captured Marks of Wind in the Snow, which depicts a sandstone formation rising from a snowy landscape, along U.S. Route 89 south of Page. He used his 4x5 Linhof camera.

DECEMBER 1952

Bob Bradshaw's A Winter Scene, photographed in Oak Creek Canyon, accompanied Portrait of Winter, a Raymond Carlson essay. "In the winter-bound forest there is the silence of the cathedral, broken only by the cracking of a tree branch heavy with snow," Carlson wrote.

DECEMBER 1966 The rhyolite formations of Southeastern Arizona's Chiricahua National Monument wear a wintry coat, as photographed by Warren Cartier on an April morning. The formation in the background is Cochise Head.

DECEMBER 1958 The saguaros of the Sonoran Desert form the foreground in this view of the snow-dusted Santa Catalina Mountains, near Tucson, as photographed by Esther Henderson. She titled the image Winter in the Desert Foothills.

DECEMBER 1952 Evergreens surround a snow-covered clearing in Allen C. Reed's A Winter Wonderland - a shot made beneath Arizona's highest mountains, the San Francisco Peaks.

DECEMBER 1959

A rare Mojave Desert snowstorm northeast of Kingman resulted in A Winter's Farewell, in which Ed Regalado captured yuccas covered in snow. Typically, the Mojave is North America's driest desert.

DECEMBER 1953

Wayne Davis photographed this frigid stream near St. Johns, a town in Northeastern Arizona.

DECEMBER 1963 Thick snow covers evergreen boughs and rock formations in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Ray Manley titled this photo High Desert Glory.

DECEMBER 1959 The Sedona area's Cathedral Rock rises above Oak Creek in this Bob Bradshaw shot. He made the photo near what now is known as Red Rock Crossing.

DECEMBER 1965 Heavy snow bends the boughs of evergreens near Arizona Snowbowl in the San Francisco Peaks. This Darwin Van Campen shot was titled World in White. AH