After I finished, Debbie and I went for a drive to Hardware Ranch to see what the canyon looked like after this snowfall It was, as we expected, extraordinarily beautiful – as we keep saying to each other, we live in a postcard. We spotted quite a few deer, all at a good distance from the road. The elk were being fed when we got to Hardware Ranch, and there were several horse-drawn carts full of kids amongst them.
On the way back we had a pleasant surprise. We spotted a large hawk flying overhead, easily visible to us through the Model X's overhead glass. It was big enough that we thought it might be a bald eagle, but we could only see it in silhouette, so we weren't sure. Then we watched it swoop in next to a bluff high overhead, and I spotted it's tail: a white band. What was it? So we got the binoculars out and tried spotting it. We were looking right through the windshield overhead, and in our other vehicles this would mean a greatly distorted image because of the glass' curvature. Not so in the Model X – we were able to see very clearly, even with the binoculars. I suspect this is an accidental result of the fact that the Model X's windshield doesn't have a compound curvature, or at least not much of one, whereas our other vehicles have pronounced compound curves in the windshield. Whatever the reason, not only do we have outstanding visibility in the Model X, we also have the ability to use the binoculars from inside. Woo hoo! A very nice surprise for a couple of wildlife gawkers, that is...
