Silver Island Mountains
Bonneville Salt Flats

Wendover, Utah

Graham Peak 7,563'
Campbell Peak 7,272'
Jenkins Peak 7,268'
Cobb Peak 7,021'
Antelope
Caves

My camera ran out of batteries right when the sun light came out. CompUSA told me that the batteries that they sold me were the new standard, 2-3 years later, they can't even be found on Ebay. ..wah .. wah.

Below are pictures of the area during a wind storm that kicked up plumes and columns of salt and sand high into the air. We drove right through a solid white-out column of kicked up sand. You couldn't see anything out of any of the windows for a second... it felt like you were driving into the nothing.

We drove around the Silver Island Mountains, through the Donner-Reed Pass, where in 1846, the Donner Party trekked through. There are still a few areas where you can see their 160 year old wagon tracks through the desert.

We went on a short hike near Donner Canyon to have a closer look at some caves, The wind was incredibly fierce, I was running fast to get my body temperature up.
The sheering cold made my lungs feel like they were bleeding and my head feel like two broomsticks had been shoved deep into my ears. Besides that I felt great.

Near the entrance to the Silver Island Mountains is Danger Cave, which has artifacts and evidence of humans have been in the area for 10,300 years.

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Saturday, March 1, 2008