Monthly Archives: July 2017

The Salmon Arches – Part 3

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No Beating a Dead Horse. As I left Arches to drive the short 26 miles to Dead Horse Point, (probably half that distance for a bird), in another demonstration of the importance of timing, there was no longer a backup …

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The Salmon Arches – Part 2

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The rest of the supporting cast. More than 100 million years before the Entrada Sandstone (that I introduced at the end of the previous post) formed as part of a massive desert, this area was a foreland marine basin that …

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The Salmon Arches

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While today is technically the antepenultimate day of the trip it is, for all practical purposes, the penultimate day because Monday is almost entirely devoted to traveling home. I’ll have to drive several hours to reach my first and principal …

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The Salt Lake – Great yet not so great – Part 3

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What’s a Todd trip without at least one stop at a cemetery? Knowing that I couldn’t get to the Bonneville Salt Flats (a remnant of Lake Bonneville) where Con Air, Independence Day, and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End …

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The Salt Lake – Great yet not so great – Part 2

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Why the Salt Lake is great – and why it isn’t. I’d guess that no visit to Salt Lake City can be considered complete without at least introducing oneself to the body of water for which the borough is named …

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