Spiral Jetty

Brad's art friends and me took a mini road trip. We drove 45 minutes past the Golden Spike Monument, which by the way is in the middle of nowhere, on a bumpy dirt road to the Spiral Jetty located on the Great Salt Lake. Many of you might wonder what the heck the Spiral Jetty is so let me give you a brief history of it. It is a earthwork by Robert Smithson and was created in 1970. It is made from rocks to form a pattern out in the Salt Lake. The picture to the left is all of us that went, besides me because I'm taking the pictures :)


Gina was kind enough to prepare us a picnic. This was a great break from the long car ride. Also gave us energy to go exploring. While we were out there and before we left Brad and me decided that we were going to climb up the mountain and look down on it. Holly only made it about half way before she had too many stickers in her shoes and had to take care of that problem. It was hard to get a good picture of it just from the road and the size of it is hard to compare due to the lack of markers out there. About dead center in this photo you can see the SUV that we rode in. It was exciting that it wasn't under water when we got there. This gave us a chance to go walk on it and check it out further.

These photos are when we were out on the Jetty:




This is a picture of Nate and Brad making their way to the middle of the Jetty.




Holly and Gina starting out the trek. This is also the mountain that we climbed. Ok so maybe its more of a big hill but it was the highest thing out there.




Here is Nate enjoying Cheetos and art. Not many places will let you do both of those at the same time.




Think this is the first picture of me and I'm standing in the very center of the Spiral Jetty.

The landscape out there was really odd to me. Because there is so much salt in the water there hardly was any vegetation. It was just sage brush and a couple other hardy plants that grow here in Utah. With the Salt Lake being so salty (go figure), I found it very interesting the salt crystals that were growing on the edge of the rocks. In the middle of the crystals there were pieces of tumbleweeds that were stuck in them. I also hadn't seen anything that sparkled so much before and there was no way that my little camera could catch the colors and light of the crystals. Thanks to Brad we got a picture of me exploring them. The other thing that I found really odd about the water is that it had a red/purple color to it. Once again there really was no way that I could catch the colors just right but from the picture you can kind of see that it is a little red. It makes me wonder what makes it do that. The colors were just so incredible.

There are just a couple more pictures that I want to share with you and this Brad and me when we got to the top of the mountain:



Notice the difference that Brad is at least a foot taller then me and how much more detail he was able to get in the photo. I felt bad but his picture still rocks!