Trip - Salt Lake City, Utah

Trip - Salt Lake City, Utah

I know what you're thinking - why go to a place with Mormons when we've survived for thousands of years without Mormons? Well, the answer is that they've got some of the most amazing views I've ever seen. If this doesn't make you want to fly out right now and take pictures of your own - then I've taken some pretty crappy pictures.

While I'm here, I asked one of the people in my training class who knows the area where to go - and he told me Big Cotton Wood is the place. It's a huge canyon between the mountains, and at the end is a ski resort. I should have headed for this place sooner than I did, but I was exhausted because of the time change and my training class and the super long flight.

I found a parking lot for the shuttle bus to the ski resort. It had some of those telescopes that cost $0.25, so I figured if I waited around I'd probably see a cool sunset. This was a difficult shot to get, and I wished I was higher up. I guess I could have stood on the roof of the rental SUV, but that didn't really occur to me at the time.

Sometimes, when you take a bunch of pictures, you say to yourself later - I should have taken one of me, and and a moose. So here it is. No moose.

I'm not going to lie - the flight out here is ridiculously long. Bring a book or something. The last 2 hours of this flight killed me, mostly because my laptop battery died and I didn't even bring a book to read. I talked to the Mormon sitting next to me on the plane for a few minutes, but he was pretty clueless about his beliefs and looked really scared, so I stopped.


As soon as we started landing, I saw this awesome picture, so I asked the Asian lady sitting next to the window to take a picture for me. Apparently, not all Asian people canwork cameras and understand what zoom is ... hence the wing.