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In fact that's just how we got the great salt flats in Utah. The bottom might not be flat but the top is as level as anything gets in nature. As evaporation continued the water just keeps re-leveling the surface until the water is gone and you get this big plain of salt.

In Utah is Moab. Near Moab is Slickrock. If you're a mountain biker, that's Mecca. A hajj is required of all mountain bikers: if you don't go, they take away your bike and make you ride a balloon-tire cruiser.

More seriously, Utah's a beautiful state in a parched way. (Well, obviously, multiple parched ways.) It gets a lot of money from tourism.
You may have heard of the Sundance film festival. That's in Utah.
You may have heard of the Bonneville Salt Flats where people race and set world land speed records. Utah.
You may have heard of the Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in this half of the world.
Or Bryce Canyon National Park or Zion National Park or the weirdness that is Natural Bridges National Monument. Or Lake Powell. Or even people going to see that weird Mormon Tabernacle and its choir, or hang out near the Hill Air Force Base and take pictures of the strange undocumented experimental military aircraft flying out of it. And that's not to mention the best skiing in the US.

Utah's tourism industry is huge.

In Utah is Moab. Near Moab is Slickrock. If you're a mountain biker, that's Mecca. A hajj is required of all mountain bikers: if you don't go, they take away your bike and make you ride a balloon-tire cruiser.

More seriously, Utah's a beautiful state in a parched way. (Well, obviously, multiple parched ways.) It gets a lot of money from tourism.
You may have heard of the Sundance film festival. That's in Utah.
You may have heard of the Bonneville Salt Flats where people race and set world land speed records. Utah.
You may have heard of the Great Salt Lake, the largest salt lake in this half of the world.
Or Bryce Canyon National Park or Zion National Park or the weirdness that is Natural Bridges National Monument. Or Lake Powell. Or even people going to see that weird Mormon Tabernacle and its choir, or hang out near the Hill Air Force Base and take pictures of the strange undocumented experimental military aircraft flying out of it. And that's not to mention the best skiing in the US.

Utah's tourism industry is huge.

Fortunately, we have lots of places to dump used terrestrial salt without hosing-up plant or animal life... like this place for instance.

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Close, accidentally erased an S there.

http://backoffice.ajb.com.au/images/news/challenge.jpg

As for the photo... It does look like ice or snow, but I think it's probably the salt flats.

http://www.utah.com/playgrounds/bonneville_salt.htm

It's an interesting pic, anyhow.

Start at Kayenta Arizona, which is the largest town in the Navajo Nation, and functions as a regional capitol, of sort.

Bring a good car, several maps, one map which shows BLM Land. camping supplies, plenty of gas, food and water. You'll be in the middle of nowhere, so always make sure you have enough gas.

Head North on Highway 261, go through Monument Valley, head towards Natural Bridges National Monument. Monument Valley is one of the most famous places in the world, yet you can stand on the side of the road without seeing anyone for 30 minutes.

Drive 4000-feet up the side of a cliff on a crazy curvy old Uranium Road. This area is called the 'Gooseneck State Park. When you get to the top, stop and look back south over the valley--- you can see quite far.

Head north until you leave Gooseneck. This is BLM land. You can drive on any road, find a nice spot and camp. Wait until the nighttime, and check out the stars.

This is one of the most remote places in the US-- millions of stars. I remember it being so dark, and the stars were so bright that I could see faint shadows from the starlight.

You dig a big hole in the ground and smelt away.

It is the worlds largest man made hole in the ground, and one of the few man made wonders that is visible from space.

http://www.utah.com/attractions/kennecott.htm

they actually produce 15% of the countries copper annually. But I have been hearing that the mine is basically tapped (at least the current mine) And that they will be starting a new mine a little futher back in the Oquirr mountains in order the meet the needs of the country.

Interestingly enough, they also produce a significant portion of the countries Uranium, Iron, and other precious metals. But i can see how we could eventually run out of resources. Hence them being natural resources. Luckily, since copper is a natually occuring element, it should be more abundant at deeper sub-terrain.

If they think it worth the journey, the Utah Salt Flats would be an ideal location to test the full-size car. 30,000 acres of perfectly flat earth ought to be enough to elminate any chance of damaging anything larger than a dirt clod. The location is often used for drag racing and testing experimental vehicles.

There is one of two cold water geysers in Green River, Utah. The other is somewhere in Switzerland (so I hear). I was last there about 5 years ago when you could stand next to the geyser and lean into the stream while errupting. Pretty cool if you're into natural phenomenon.

Crystal Geyser