“We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.” Friedrich August von Hayek The Sheeprock Mountains are a little known range located south of Vernon in southeast Tooele County. One of my most memorable hiking events occurred in this range on April 24th, 2004 when I climbed [...]
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A cold night on Red Pine Mountain – Sheeprock Mountains; Tooele County, Utah
Sunday, February 13th, 2011TABLE MOUNTAIN – Ancient Sentinel of the Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah
Sunday, January 30th, 2011Table Mountain as seen from the East with the shoreline of ancient Lake Bonneville half way up the peak – GSLD, Utah “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Out along the Pony Express Trail, [...]
TOPAZ – Remains of the Japanese Internment Camp still bleach in the Desert Sun – Part Two
Friday, January 28th, 2011Topaz internment camp as it looked during WWII – Courtesy of the Topaz Museum, Delta, Utah “It takes less time to do a thing right – than it does to explain why you did it wrong” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the last article we traveled from Tooele to the Topaz Internment Camp site via the [...]
TOPAZ – Japanese internment camp from World War II – Sevier Desert, Utah
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011Remains of Topaz crumble in the sage and sun of the Sevier Desert in Utah “Morning on the desert, and the wind is blowing free And it’s ours just for the breathing, so let’s fill up you and me” Old Cowboy Song – Author Unknown As a child whenever I would hear my Dad or [...]
OPHIR – Sleepy little ribbon town that refuses to die; Oquirrh Mountains, Utah
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011Ophir City Hall as it looks today – Ophir, Utah “Then thou shalt lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks” Job 22:24 About 4 miles up a deep canyon on the west slope of the Oquirrh Mountains is a town that was too tough to die [...]
DAVIS MOUNTAIN – Skull Valley, Utah
Monday, January 24th, 2011View down to Skull Valley from high up on Round Top – Davis Mountain, Utah “Public opinion is a poor tyrant Compared with our own private opinion” - Henry David Thoreau If you drive south on the Skull valley road to where it merges with the Johnson’s pass road near the Dugway gate, and then [...]
BENSON GRIST MILL – Wonderful example of Pioneer hard work and ingenuity; Stansbury Park, Utah
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011Ezra Taft Benson’s Grist Mill – Stansbury Park, Tooele County, Utah Nothing Gold Can Stay – Robert Frost Normally, I would agree with Mr. Frost on his above ascertation, but I would have to disagree in the case of the topic covered in this article. Possibly one of the best preserved glimpses into our [...]
DEATH CANYON – Simpson Mountains, Utah
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011Flat Top Mountain with the Sheeprock Mountains in the Distance and the Mighty Wasatch rising behind them. “Freedom is from within” Frank Lloyd Wright In early April I decided to go and explore an area that I have been wanting to visit again for quite some time and that place is Death Canyon in [...]
INDIAN SPRINGS CANYON – Simpson Mountains, Utah
Friday, January 21st, 2011Gnarled ancient Juniper on the slopes of the Indian Peaks – Simpson Mountains, Utah “Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher” William Wordsworth One day in May, I decided to take a drive out into the Great American Desert after work at Dugway Proving Grounds. I left the main gate [...]
GHOSTS of BLACK ROCK – Great Salt Lake, Utah
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Black Rock with Tules – Great Salt Lake, Utah “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” Mark Twain Black Rock is located at the northern tip of the Oquirrh Mountains where the range ends abruptly at the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake. This is a very historical [...]
THE EAST TINTIC RANGE – Tooele County, Utah- A bit of forest in an otherwise desert place
Monday, January 17th, 2011Mill Canyon Flowers East Tintic Range – Tooele County, Utah “Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it” Theodore Roosevelt The subject of this article is a little known and underappreciated little group of mountains called the East Tintic Range. Before we get [...]