July 8, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/pithouseeasternusudotedu-190x126.jpg

In some of the previous entries about early human habitation in North America I’ve explored some of the evidence regarding how and when the earliest people reached the continent so I won’t cover that ground again here. Instead, I’ll start …

July 7, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SLC-SkylineWasatchjay_dash_photographyfrom-visitutah-190x127.jpg

Recently, I was talking with someone about this Olympic host cities project and he expressed surprise that Salt Lake City had hosted a Winter Olympics because his impression of the city was that it’s relatively flat. He isn’t wrong. SLC …

July 6, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Salt-Lake-Map-172x190.jpg

Headnote. For those of you who have read all the posts from my 2017 trip to Arizona and Utah if this post seems familiar, you’re not mistaken. It’s lifted almost verbatim from a section of the post titled “The Salt …