Mountain Run

[hotrodalex]

This time we went in my roommate's truck.

[RomanChariot]

This shot looks like it was taken from Rock Canyon looking back over the marina at Utah Lake State Park. Were you on Squaw Peak Road?

[FoMoJo]

This time we went in my roommate's truck.

What are those grooves in the hillside all about?

[hotrodalex]

This shot looks like it was taken from Rock Canyon looking back over the marina at Utah Lake State Park. Were you on Squaw Peak Road?

Yup. I went a ways down the road back when I had my BMW, but you get to a part where it says no passenger vehicles beyond this point. So we finally got a capable vehicle and explored it.

[hotrodalex]

What are those grooves in the hillside all about?

Unsure. They kinda look like step-farming grooves. But that's silly. A bit further back on the road (to the right) there were similar grooves that had ATV tracks, but these grooves don't connect so that doesn't seem to be the answer.

[MexicoCityM3]

Nice views.

[Rupert]

Unsure. They kinda look like step-farming grooves. But that's silly. A bit further back on the road (to the right) there were similar grooves that had ATV tracks, but these grooves don't connect so that doesn't seem to be the answer.

Possibly some misguided debris flow prevention engineering if that slope drains into a valley that is pointed at civilization. Could also be cow tracks or related to logging (though it doesn't look like trees ever grew there). Since they seem to end abruptly, I'm going with the first option.

[hotrodalex]

Sounds good to me. The valley opens up to the town/city in the background.

[Rupert]

It wouldn't get light until 9 am here if we did that. Come on, that's ridiculous. I think the real issue here is that the planet is tilted. We should try to change that instead.

[Speed_Racer]

What are those grooves in the hillside all about?

I know the answer to this one!!!

A New Deal/CCC project from the Great Depression: http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladmtn_lines.htm

[Rupert]

I know the answer to this one!!!

A New Deal/CCC project from the Great Depression: http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladmtn_lines.htm

Possibly some misguided debris flow prevention engineering if that slope drains into a valley that is pointed at civilization. Could also be cow tracks or related to logging (though it doesn't look like trees ever grew there). Since they seem to end abruptly, I'm going with the first option.

Nailed it!

It wouldn't get light until 9 am here if we did that. Come on, that's ridiculous. I think the real issue here is that the planet is tilted. We should try to change that instead.

Whoops, wrong thread.

[FoMoJo]

I know the answer to this one!!!

A New Deal/CCC project from the Great Depression: http://geology.utah.gov/surveynotes/gladasked/gladmtn_lines.htm

Thanks.  Now I can sleep again.