Saturday, July 10, 2010

Rocky Mountain High

We're up early for a long day of driving.  Good thing it's a gorgeous morning!  Our goal is to reach Salt Lake City by dinner. 

Balloons and fluffy clouds outside Denver




Rocky Mountains ahead!



There was a cycling event happening where hundreds of bikers were riding UP the mountain.  We passed them for miles and miles.  I took a picture of these two because they were riding hard and fast at over 11,000 feet!  



Lovely scenery




You can't really tell from these pictures, but something is killing the trees up here.  All of the brownish/red trees are dead or dying, and the number of trees affected is astounding.




How can this be comfortable??????




On the other side of the mountain, the landscape changed dramatically.  It's beginning to look more like Utah!


Guess what?



The Book Cliffs



Not this again!



American Fork Canyon.



It has been almost 10 years since we drove in to Salt Lake from this direction, so we were surprised to see these had popped up at the end of the canyon.  




The Wasatch Front and Y Mountain.  The "Y" stands for Brigham Young University, where we both spent a lot of years.  Eric and I actually met there in 1984. 




What a long drive--and loooooong post!




More to come......





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