May 11th

City Day!

Salt Lake City, for those of you that don't know, is home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints, aka the mos. They have a huge church here, and a huge assembly hall, and a huge conference centre, and a huge buisness school and a huge, i mean huge office building. How huge of an office building you ask, well let's just say that there is a law in town that no other building can be taller than it...
You may also notice the globe on the lower left hand side, there's one of those on both sides.

On to other things. The downtown core itself consists of about 8 high rises. All of which were taken down and moved a few blocks over near the new mall which is a lot better than the old mall. Needless to say when you come to SLC you come for the scenery and mountains, not the city.

After touring the town we headed out to grab some stuff at the camping store which we had forgot, had some awesome pizza and then off to the mountains to see what's really worth the drive. The weather wasn't on our side. You can see by the colour of the sky in the photo that matches the concrete that it wasn't like the glorious sunshine we see in Vancouver. We got to take a look at a lot of climbing spots but they were soaked through and through and in no way climbable. Driving further up into the hills we saw snow. Lots of snow, like three to four feet of snow. This I was told is uncommon but not unheard of. I think the next town we drive to had weather forecasts of a blizzard too. This climbing trip may not start until we hit the deserts.

One more night in town. Going to hit up the iconic Blue Iguana restaurant and then come back for a bit of a jam session seeing as I just found out that Nolte also fiddles and knows the songs I do.

-Nick-