Put sunscreen on parts of your body you may not generally protect, like under your chin, under your nose, and even the bottoms of your ears. The tricky part is the salt reflects the sun. You have to use sunscreen and refresh it every few hours. Spending the day on salt in the desert is intense and tricky. Drink at least twice as much as you normally do. This I know from previous personal experience. If you don’t drink it will get worse and sometimes the “worse” part can come on suddenly. If you begin to feel thirsty, you’re already partially dehydrated. You dehydrate quickly if you do not drink plenty of fluids. No one said, “Oh yum, that’s awesome.” I’m happy to learn from others’ experiences when it comes to tasting something that’s been lying in the open on the ground, possibly for thousands of years.
All agreed it had an extremely strong, harsh, “salty” taste. I didn’t taste it myself, but three other journalists did. Salt Flats survival guide Desert-related factors Is it really salt? When you get off there’s a gas station, a restaurant, and a couple of small stores and that’s it. You’ll see the Salt Flats on your right before you get to the exit. I wasn’t driving, but guess how fast most vehicles were traveling. The highway is straight and fast for 110 miles to exit 4. Leave the airport and take the first right onto 80 west. The way many people get to the Bonneville Salt Flats is to fly to Salt Lake City and rent a car. Bring food and water, too, as the nearest town is 12 miles away. You can camp for free on adjacent Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property while attending Salt Flats events, but there are no facilities in the camping area – just desert. The Bonneville Salt Flats aren’t on the moon, they only look that way. Note that images are stored in UTC time, which is 7 hours (6 hours during DST) ahead of Mountain Time.Ĭurrently it is 20:54 Mountain Time which is 02:54 UTC.At 503 mph, Turbinator II is the world’s fastest wheel-driven vehicle This page can be used to explore daily archives of the collected images when available. The MesoWest group at the University of Utah has deployed cameras at several of our local and remote weather stations.
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