Avoiding Salt Lake City


Last evening, we had a scary experience…it was weather related.  It had been a beautiful day, the temperature was hovering around 30 degrees with a slight breeze blowing, quite comfortable.  Within about 10 minutes, the temperature dropped about 15 degrees and the slight breeze turned into a gale force wind.  We suspect that the gusts were blowing in the 60 to 70 mph range.  We sat in the tent trailer holding it down…hoping and praying…well maybe not a lot of the latter…that the tent trailer would hold together.  An hour later the wind subsided just as quickly as it had come up.  The strange part was, despite the wind and the look of the sky, only about 10 drops of rain fell.  The tent trailer seems to have weathered the storm okay.

Our destination today was just south of Brigham City, Salt Lake City was in the road.   We solved that by heading east out through Provo Canyon.  We are glad that we did.  Sue’s instincts for finding waterfalls was dead on and so was our luck.  Bridal Vale Falls is just outside of Provo.  Half of Provo, we think, was out there today.  The parking, as we have found several times on this adventure, is less than adequate.  We lucked into a parking spot…30 seconds earlier or 30 seconds later and we would have been driving on down the road with only a passing glance at this amazing Falls.

Sue’s route was a fun drive up a canyon over a mountain pass and down a valley to our destination the Brigham City KOA.  This is a well treed campground, but the sites are tightly packed together.  I am sitting at the picnic table looking at the side of our neighbours trailer that is about 6 feet away.  One thing about KOA’s, people spend all their time inside their rigs so do not bother us…hard to understand.

Distance Traveled = 216 km.  Wildlife Sightings = Magpie, Great-tailed Grackle, Mourning Dove, House Sparrow, Western Kingbird, California Quail, Canada Geese, American White Pelican.


 The Sudden Wind Storm


 The Sunset after the storm had abated


 Bridal Veil Falls


Bridal Veil Falls...into the sun


Echo Reservoir...in the hills above Salt Lake City


Wasatch Mountains...east of Salt Lake City

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