Enterprise Log: SEA-SLC

On the move again, we’re underway through Montana, enroute to Salt Lake City where we’ll end the week’s adventure with a soaring trip. This is an incredible slice of earth, growing as vertical as anyplace I’ve been. Mountain’s here are weathered, rounded by past submersions and millions of years worth of wear, making them well suited to the trees that blanket much of their surface. Further east we’ve found it has gotten more tundra like but is still green with large softish peaks all around. It’s a contrast to the, un-eroded, newer mountains (well, newer in geologic terms) we left in Seattle.

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