The transaction is the first for
Alpenglow Rail, which is backed by private equity firm Stonecourt Capital.
Alpenglow Rail is focused on short line rail businesses and related transportation assets.
We reached the rim of the canyon just in time to catch the last hint of
alpenglow on the peaks.
After dinner, the staffers (usually in their early 20s and from all over the country) introduce themselves and talk about the camps' history, or sing a few songs (sometimes transcendently, sometimes, well, not so much) or tell us how to find the best view of the
alpenglow on Clouds Rest ridge.
Thus we learn A is for
Alpenglow, B is for Beaver (Castor canadensis), and C is for Cougar (Puma concolor).
"As a new student at MSU in 1970, I was stunned by the technicolor sunsets that fill the sky and light up the Bridger Mountains with
alpenglow," says resident Alice Flynn.
"And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it,'' he wrote in "The Yosemite,'' "rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of the
alpenglow, and the irised sprays of countless waterfalls, it still seems above all others the Range of Light.''
Above stands a feature called the West Shoulder that can shed avalanches on a "pretty regular basis", said Ballinger, who works for
Alpenglow Expeditions and was preparing to depart for Nepal.
The sun is now cresting to the east and
alpenglow illuminates the faces of my fellow warriors.