Oquirrh snows
I love that name (say "oaker") - it's from the Goshute tribe of this region - though how it acquired such an elegant spelling is obscure to me.
This gusty troubled weather is moving east (right to left in the frame) towards Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Range.
These mountain ranges are the easternmost of the basin and range sequence that stretches from Western Utah across all of Nevada, rhythmically rising above the plains every 30 miles or so.
Of interest are the horizontal lines ("benches") along the lower slopes, about 1/5 of the way up the mountains, that mark ancient shorelines of the once enormous Lake Bonneville that filled much of this space, from Idaho to Arizona, until shortly after the last glacier retreat 10,000 years ago.
Oquirrh snows
I love that name (say "oaker") - it's from the Goshute tribe of this region - though how it acquired such an elegant spelling is obscure to me.
This gusty troubled weather is moving east (right to left in the frame) towards Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Range.
These mountain ranges are the easternmost of the basin and range sequence that stretches from Western Utah across all of Nevada, rhythmically rising above the plains every 30 miles or so.
Of interest are the horizontal lines ("benches") along the lower slopes, about 1/5 of the way up the mountains, that mark ancient shorelines of the once enormous Lake Bonneville that filled much of this space, from Idaho to Arizona, until shortly after the last glacier retreat 10,000 years ago.