The mystery and beauty of stormy winter nights in these mountains at the end of January was captured in this iPhone photo by Jennifer Dier, at 5:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 29. Footsteps of creatures across the snow are like a headline, revealing their secrets. The image raises shivers on the same day that data showed an invisible coronavirus was stalking and killing an American every 28 seconds in January 2021. Now the vaccine roll-out in Kern County has begun. See that full ‘Wolf Moon’ up close and personal on page 8.

This is part of the February 5, 2021 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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