Today’s
travel began with a trek through the Great Salt Lake valley which entailed several
hours of freeway traffic through congested cities that all blur together. You
can’t tell where the cities begin or end other than what the truck’s GPS indicates.
This is
definitely not our favorite part of traveling, however once we began to climb
up the Spanish River Valley on Highway 6 we encountered scenery that was much
more to our liking.
The muddy
Spanish Fork River has carved through layers of sedimentary rock exposing
cliffs of rock blocks along with many different layers of varying thickness and
hue.
As we
climbed sweeping turns through the Wasatch Mountain Range up to Soldier Summit,
we began to gain elevation. Before long there were patches of snow tucked into
crevices. We even drove through one snow flurry, although with temperatures in
the mid 40’s we didn’t have to worry about snow sticking to highway.
Once through
the Wasatch Mountains we crossed the Wasatch valley with vaulting tilted escarpments
of rock on either side. The desert had small streambeds cutting through it.
Most of them were dry, or nearly so, just waiting for another rainstorm.
Our camp
this night was in the Green River State Park. It’s a nice little park just off
of Highway 70. For tomorrow’s adventures, we’ll head further into red rock
country.
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