On A Clear Day, You Can See...Well, Five Counties

I've been waiting for a day like this ever since we moved.

Of course, it took some intense wind and rain last night to produce what we saw this morning.

The skies were clear. And they were beautiful.

One of the main reasons we relocated an hour north was the air. No, we did not escape bad air entirely--I wonder if that's even possible anymore, and if it is, I wonder if it will stay that way for long. The past couple of weeks we've experience the same thing as pretty much everyone...being unable to see very far due to the pollution in the air. This morning, we could see a long way away.

How far could we see?

At least five counties.

I took a panoramic picture. At the very left of the picture, you can see into Cache County--just the tops of the mountains east of Logan, but you can see them. The county we see most is Box Elder County. That's where we live.

Before the air turned bad my wife and I stood on our font porch and looked south. We saw several points where the foothills blend into the valley--if you can make the below picture larger, you can see these points. The closest one separates Box Elder County from Weber County. The next point we could see was North Salt Lake in Davis County. Just beyond that is Salt Lake County, and the farthest point we could see is the Point of the Mountain, famous for treacherous roads when the weather turns bad. It also separates Salt Lake County from Utah County.

Cache, Box Elder, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake. With some binoculars or a telescope, I'm sure I could spot Mount Timpanogos in Utah County, and, though you can't see it from this picture, we can also see the Oquirrh Mountains west of Salt Lake, and they border Tooele County.

Plus, looking north, there's Idaho, so...

Point being, on a clear day, everything seems to open up. It's beautiful up here.