The Great Salt Lake??
09-01-2004 | 11:49 AM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
Originally Posted by Dock Holiday
We like to go to Utah to snow ski. Some of the best in the country in my opinion. When you fly in you really get a good view of the lake.
The lake has always interested me because a good friend back in grade school made a trip there and told me that there was so much salt in the water that you would not sink when you went swimming in it.
Well I guess I never learned if this is true or not, but have remembered it now for 35 years!
Anyone know?
The lake has always interested me because a good friend back in grade school made a trip there and told me that there was so much salt in the water that you would not sink when you went swimming in it.
Well I guess I never learned if this is true or not, but have remembered it now for 35 years!
Anyone know?
09-01-2004 | 01:29 PM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
Originally Posted by Reed Jensen
Ahhhh Jesus... don't tell me you're working for the Osmonds.......... 
No, I work for a hospital.
Getting to hang out with them is just a side benefit.
I was never into their music, but their charity is excellent.
09-01-2004 | 01:32 PM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
I remember going there when I was a kid in 1966, All I remember was that in stank and stung you eye's and I got worn out trying to get deep enough, far enough out, to swim. It seemed like 100 yards.And the showers at the shore.
09-01-2004 | 01:50 PM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
Originally Posted by Reed Jensen
I skied Snowbird the first year it opened (1971)... I can also remember when Park City was just a mining town (silver).. The original ski resorts are Alta and Brighton.... (My grandmother was born in Park City in 1892) I like to tell people that I remember Park City when it was "Park City BC" the BC being "Before Condo".......Yes... when the lake level is low... the specific gravity of the salt water is so high that you literally float like a cork on top of the water... Picture post cards used to show people in a circle playing cards.... with only their butts and the tops of their legs in the water.... unfortunately the salinity burned your eyes and any mucus membranes in the water... so you didn't want to spend much time in the lake.
09-01-2004 | 02:30 PM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
Originally Posted by fund razor
Damn Reed,
You are one of them. Your grandma must have hung around with Brigham Young.
Must have been cool growing up before the modernization, so to speak.
You are one of them. Your grandma must have hung around with Brigham Young.
Must have been cool growing up before the modernization, so to speak.
09-01-2004 | 02:57 PM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
Originally Posted by Troutly
Well, that explains a lot...... 
Whenever I tell some one that I'm originally from Utah... I then sumarilly answer there next two question... NO and NO... No... I'm not Mormon... and NO I don't have multiple wives........
09-01-2004 | 03:36 PM
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Re: The Great Salt Lake??
Originally Posted by Troutly
I thought that was just in the downtown area, not every street in town. I went through there many years ago and did not recall all streets being real wide.
