Showing posts with label Y. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Y. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

Canyons of the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains along the east of Utah Valley

Whew, long title.
I have been trying to figure out all the names of the canyons in Utah Valley.  Growing up, of course I knew about all the "big" ones because we went to them all the time - AF, Provo, Hobble Creek and Spanish Fork canyons.  But this past year I've been discovering the others and it's really been awesome.  I haven't visited or hiked in all of them yet, but I plan to.  I had to look up the names of some of these with help of Google.  Maybe someone else is looking for it too, so here it is, and I hope to some day put this on to a picture or drawing for all the visual people like me.  If you see that I have any of them wrong or missed any, please let me know!

Canyons of Utah Valley, north to south:
AF canyon
Grove Creek Canyon - north of the G
Battle Creek Canyon- off 200 S. PG, south of the G
Dry Canyon - off 200 S. Lindon/ 2000 N. Orem
Provo Canyon
Little Rock Canyon
Rock Canyon - east of Provo temple, North of the Y
Slate Canyon- About 2000 S. Provo, South of the Y
Hobble Creek Canyon - Springville
Maple Canyon - Mapleton
Spanish Fork Canyon

Monday, December 5, 2011

Ambient Air

I live in a bowl-shaped valley.  Which means we have temperature inversions.  A lot.  Especially in winter.  The past several days the ambient air has been so nasty!  It stinks and makes me cough, and may have contributed to the sickness I've ended up with.  To top it off, in my car, the refresh button is broken- you know the little one you push to make it recycle the air when you drive past road kill or you're behind a stinky truck that hasn't passed its emissions test.  That's broken so we have only outside air and it has been so bad.  It's also been bitterly cold.  So I haven't been walking or hiking lately but with the air, I wouldn't want to anyway.

So I wonder- is it always like this and I'm just noticing it more this year since I actually have been out in the fresh air and the mountains more lately?  Or is it worse for some reason?

It makes me want to go hike the Y.  My Environmental Management teacher told us about inversions and how he went on a hike with a friend to the Y when it was super cold, but when they got up to the Y, they got to a high enough elevation that they were above the inversion and it was all sunny and warm up there.  :)  I'm not sure if my lungs could get me there with this icky air though.  Yuck.