Salt Lake City -2: It's still winter in the mountains

"4X4 VEHICLES ONLY!  CHAINS REQUIRED UNTIL MAY 1 !"

The Wasatch Mountain calendar does not agree with ours.  In another galaxy far, far away --when John worked at a respected job-- he attended a Radio/TV News Directors Association convention in this city.   The Fox Network was just getting fired up, Bart Simpson was still a sideshow on Tracy Ullman (or was it Gary Shandling?) and the  Fox Network people wanted to show the industry that they had Arrived.  So the some thousand of us were bused to the top of the Snowbird ski resort (it was high summer) and treated to an expensive dinner and show with Fox talent.  No, John doesn't remember who because he didn't care.  He was there to talk and learn about Radio News.  But he remembers the feed!  And no snow on the mountain. 


This is different now, however. This past winter was bountifully snowy for the West.  Debbie and John went up a couple canyon roads. These pix are from Cottonwood Canyon, well more than a mile in the air.
Thankfully, today is May Day and the roads were cleared. Mostly.

After a few days in SLC, we relocated to one of Debbie's Harvest Host freebie parking lot sites, in Santaquina, which gave us a chance to look over Provo from 2,100' higher along Squaw Peak Road.

Finally, waking up the next morning, John ate breakfast while gazing at one of the many, many mountain "walls" around this huge valley area and wondered, "D'you suppose that people who grow up looking out their kitchen window at this ever go on vacation to somewhere like Michigan and say, disdainfully, 'Why'd I bother?!'"

The wow-factors have only begun for us.  Moab next stop.