It's been stormy and cold and rainy for about the past 10 days, and supposed to continue for the next 4-5 days. But we had one morning, Saturday morning, as a break between storms. Sunny and somewhat warm.
We hurried out and went to Draper for an easy quick hike to Bear Canyon Suspension Bridge. Much of the hike is along the Lake Bonneville Shoreline trail. Lake Bonneville was a pre-historic lake, about 14.500 years ago and it was large - huge is a better word. It was more than 1000 feet deep, and spread out to Southern Idaho and Northern Nevada and all of the Salt Lake Valley covering about 20,000 square miles. With climate change and other factors, most of it dried up thousands of years ago. But along the mountains, you can still see the line where the shoreline was..and much of it is now a hiking/jogging/biking trail hundreds of miles long.
It was very crowded on our hike! Seems everyone else was taking advantage of the break in weather too!
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| After several switchbacks for about 1/2 mile, we reached the shoreline trail |
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| Everything we see below would have been under water |
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| We finally see the bridge |
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| Small mini bridge across a pretty good flowing stream this time of year |
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| Being a suspension bridge, it sways in the wind and when you walk over it |
We hadn't done this hike in a few years and it was a good one to do again! Close and pretty easy and quick..About 2 1/2 miles round trip.
