The day after our Tahoe trip Willie and I jumped into the rental car and headed for Salt Lake City while Roberta headed back to Dallas. Our trip across all of Nevada and most of Utah was about 500 miles and 7 hours long. The instruments were to be deployed and record for about four days. During this time we really didn't have much to do. Such is the schedule of the simple active source experiment.
We never did manage to make it to downtown Salt Lake City, which was just a simple light rail trip away from where we were staying in South Salt Lake City, but we did make it to a couple of bars and up into the nearby mountains. Not necessarily in that order.
We headed east out of the southern part of the SLC metropolitan area on Highway 152 and up into the Wasatch National Forest. The city, of course, came right up to the edge of the park.
Just minutes from the city picture above you were deep into the mountains.
I don't ski -- I like my legs (and that's not just an excuse with my luck) -- but I'd heard of this place. About 7/8th of the way across the 12 mile wide park, and about 3000 feet up from the park entrance was the pretty heavily developed area of the Brighton Ski Resort.
There were plenty of places for people to stay after getting stuck in a winter snow storm.
Near the resort was Silver Lake. We took a little time and walked the path all of the way around the lake. It was nice and cool.
At the eastern edge of the park was the view above. You could snake your way down the mountain to Park City and make a big loop up to Interstate 80 and back to SLC, but we turned around and made our way back through the park to check out fishing conditions along Big Cottonwood Creek that ran next to the highway.
Nice. I could fish here.
2018-02-08