Tuesday afternoon I met up with Rezdog and Allen and Stan Macbean to do some camping and flying in northwestern Utah. After meeting up at the south end of the Great Salt Lake, we headed north hitting a few strips on the way. Then we turned west to the Sun Tunnels to spend the night. Rezdog had to get home with his two boys so they departed at sunset.

The next day we woke up to a car pulling in driven by a nice 20 something year old Korean girl from L.A. After visiting for a while, we invited her to join us to explore some of the local places to land. I figured it might be a good chance to share aviation with someone that was from an artsy background. Maybe share some good will. She happily accepted and before long we had camp broken down and we're off on her first GA airplane ride. I think it blew her mind a bit that we were landing where we did. Nothing crazy, but obviously different for her. She was in awe of the different perspective from the air and really thought it was cool.

We explored a few places over the next few hours before I deposited her back at the sun tunnels and her car. It was a great quick getaway.

Here are some pics and a hastily thrown together video. I forgot to change the angle of the lens, thus the black corners. I had to salvage what I had. Make sure to set it to HD.

http://youtu.be/_aHNoSe47Rk

Rendezvous on the south end of the Salt Lake.


Rezdog getting some great shots of his beautiful 185.


Allen landing the Spiral Jetty. (Thanks again Steve!)


Black Mountain


Sun Tunnel Pano


Rezdog departing the Sun Tunnels
https://youtu.be/xS6ij6nCAoI

Camp at the Sun Tunnels


Allen and his room at the Sun Tunnels.


Allen doing his Troy Hammon impersonation.


Utah hard pan


Our new friend checking out a horny toad we found.


More centerline practice visiting an old railroad town.

I kept scrolling down through the photos looking to see some really neat natural feature named the Sun tunnels and come to find out its just a cement pipe.

Nice story though.

Allen landing the Spiral Jetty. (Thanks again Steve!)

You're welcome! It looks like the Spiral Jetty is holding up pretty good. Nice trip and photos.

Very nice. I'm please to see that you got Rezdog out, he needs it!

This is super cool!! Allen did you sink some expansion bolts or something?

Awesome!

Hey Zane, here was his anchoring system.



Other than just getting out to fly and play, the hammock in the tunnel was the reason we camped there.

Haha brilliant. I didn't realize those were holes.

Yeah she put holes in them in the shape of different constellations. As the sun comes through them they show up inside of the tunnel.