Redrock Outdoors News And Views

Now, to start this post off right, I should offer up a simple fact.  I love living in Utah!  That said, I hate living in the Salt Lake Valley during the Winter when a high pressure weather system camps out over the top of us and basically screws a lid down tight on the valley, trapping us in a stew of rank air that leaves eyes and noses burning.  We’re in the midst of a heavy inversion as I write this, it’s been going on for a while now and it makes me want to basically chuck it all and move out of here. 

Over this last weekend, I piled my daughters in the FJ and we headed up Parley’s Canyon to get out of the muck for the day.  We started off by stopping by the Geocache we placed up on the Weber River, just to check on it.  (Here’s a link to it: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=92b86957-bb64-4708-8059-371520f57584)  It was fine, but getting a little thin on cool goodies, so we’ll have to plan another trip to load it back up.  We decided to make our way around to Heber, so we had a chance to check on the Ice Fishing at Rockport.  The Reservoir was well iced and there were plenty of folks out trying their luck.  Through Kamas, we worked our way around the back side of Jordanelle Reservoir, which was mostly ice free.  After lunch in Heber, we made our way up to Strawberry Reservoir, where, again the Ice Fishing crowd was out in force. 

As it were, all it took was a day on the road, up out of the soup that passes for Winter Air in the Salt Lake Valley, and once again I was convinced that for an outdoorsman, this is a pretty good place to call home.