Saturday, June 23, 2007

The Solstice

So to celebrate the summer solstice, my buddy Trav and I took off for to Wendover, then turned north and went 40 miles on a dirt road to the middle of nowhere. Our destination: The sun tunnels.



There we met some friends, including this sweet hippie dude named Jim (that's Jim with his shirt off in this pic with some of our new friends)



So the idea is that you wait around and watch the sun set through these tubes that are perfectly aligned with the summer and winter solstici. While waiting, more and more people showed up - eventually about 35 people came - it was a pretty good crowd for the middle of nowhere.


So we all watched it set

















and hit the road back to Provo.



Well, after I got a picture with Jim that is...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Its like a desert Mormon Stonehenge. Nice.

Travis said...

Ry,

Check out my parent's blog. I added links to the video and story from the Ogden Standard Examiner aabout the Sun Tunnels