1989/90 - Pretty Pictures Of Northern Utah

Left: 1115 MST, 2/16/90. Looking directly north, with Salt Lake City in the distance, while flying over icy Utah Lake (near Orem and Provo).


The Piper Navajo was a grand platform from which to take pretty pictures of northern Utah!



Left: 1135 MST, 12/23/89. Chevron Refinery, as seen upon approach from the north to the Salt Lake City airport. I remember when we flew through a sulfurous plume generated by this refinery (Yuck!)

The hill above the refinery features a wave-cut bench, created by the Great Salt Lake's Pleistocene Era's ancestor, the grand Lake Bonneville.

Left: 1115 MST, 12/23/89, near valley fog's southern boundary in the Cache Valley, not far from Logan, UT.

Sometimes the eye can see details that photos can't quite capture. Looking through the thin, translucent fog, it seemed to me I could detect cellular convection patterns, akin to Benard cell convection, but the photo doesn't quite show it. Dang! That would have been notable!

Left: 1040 MST, 12/23/89. Antelope Island, T = -2 deg C.

Clear over the Great Salt Lake!

Left: 1131 MST, 2/16/90. In the foreground, the summit of Mt. Timpanogos, and in the distance, to the upper-right, Provo, UT.

Left: 1050 MST, 12/23/89. Pineview Reservoir, east of Ogden, UT.

Left: 0942 MST, 12/27/89. Visible industrial water vapor plumes punch into the fog from below. Geneva Steel Plant, east shore of Utah Lake, near Orem (and Provo), UT.

Left: 1100 MST, 2/16/90. Follow Interstate Highway 80 west into the low level haze at the north end of the Oquirrh Mountains, and along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake.

Left: 1107 MST, 2/16/90. Little Cottonwood Canyon, SE of Salt Lake City.