Yesterday found us walking along City Creek Canyon Trail. City Creek was the first water source used by the Mormon Pioneers settling the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In the early years water flowed through ditches for irrigating gardens. Residents hand dipped water for their culinary and domestic needs. In 1866, City Creek was first diverted into a municipally-owned, piped water distribution system to provide fire protection and culinary water supply to city residents.
The maximum recorded flow in City Creek during the floods of 1983 was 322 cubic feet per second, which resulted in considerable debris flows, flooding and damage through downtown Salt Lake City as State Street was converted into a temporary “river” after debris clogged the city’s storm drain pipes.
We walked up the road 2.5 miles and back again. So not many photographs (click to enlarge). The first two shots about sum it up:
Going up. Shauna, Jill, Susan, and Mike.
Coming down. Susan, Shauna, and Jill.
Mike carried on when we turned back. However, we did find a concrete staircase built in the middle of the wilderness by a lost civilization.
We stopped for lunch.
We sent Shauna out over a rotting log to find the trail but there was none.
The girls found a geocache by a big tree stump.
I love it when the directions say, "You will find it by the tree down by the river"
Mike went on to Area 26, about a 10 mile round trip.
Reminds me a bit of the Provo Canyon trail. Thanks for sharing.