Salt conditons at Bonneville

[geh458]

two words, WEB CAM!

Or at least a picture or two would be nice with these updates.

[Tman]

Webcam site courtesy of Lynda. See what you miss by not getting into the Tues night chat!?

http://www.the-webcam-network.com/Nevada-USA/West-Wendover/2965720.html

[hotrod]

Hmmmm You don't suppose that the new Bonneville Museum, or the Salt Flats Cafe could be talked into placing a web cam on its roof looking out toward the salt flats???

I'd chip in a few dollars for annual expenses and the hardware purchase if someone would be willing to physically host the equipment.

Larry

[DallasV]

FYI, Pumping started last week

[Glen]

Thanks Dallas, I was going to ask.

[Dean Los Angeles]

The Wendover peak web cam gives you an aerial picture of the salt.
Click "Control" and you can pan and zoom. The default view is Wendover. Click left about 15 times, past the communication gear, past I 80, past the big green pole. Just past the big green pole (Galvanized? Corroded?) is the End Of The Road.
http://206.197.88.69/home/homeJ.html

The first picture is from 5 days ago. There was some water around the end of the road. No where else.
The second picture is a panorama I stitched together.
The camera will pan from Wendover past floating mountain.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Dean, if I understand you correctly, the first photo shows the road all the way to Land's End.  There's water not far from the end of the pavement.  But what's the long-size artifact that's directly ahead in the photo from Land's End?  It looks like one of the dikes - but there isn't one there unless it's new.  Something else, maybe?  Maybe I'm wrong and it isn't the end of the road.

It's late here and we're going to bed.  Maybe by the light of day (1 - 4 inches of snow predicted for overnight) it'll all become clear to me.  G'night.

[Glen]

SSS, there is a dike across from the end of the road, I think the picture makes it look closer to the end of the road.

[velocity]

Glen is correct, it is the dike we always see, but the the photo is what is known in photography as a "compression shot" which make the geographic markers appear closer together than they really are.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Whoa.  Okay, I know about the dike -- but sure didn't think that even a long lens would make it look that near.  Thanks for reassuring me (and anyone else that might have wondered) that there's not been a shift of the earth.

[Dean Los Angeles]

That's the same ditch that Craig Breedlove dove in.
The ditch is less than a mile from the end of the road. It is that close in the picture.
Craig had the same lousy choice that everyone has when running too fast southbound. Do you steer for the ditch or the much higher berm at I 80?

[Seldom Seen Slim]

At the Cook Shootout the course is set up paralleling the dike - the old International course.  For safety an emergency catch net is set up on the side of the course away from the dike - right turn, not left, from the course.  If a racer is on the way into the pits/southbound and is "hot" - chute failure or brakes or whatever -- he's to turn to the net.  Even if he goes through the net there's quite a bit of real estate for him to explore/use to slow down (it's really soft out there).  Straight ahead down the course would have said racer hit the berm and then "fly" towards I-80.  Ask Tom Burkland about the time, just a few years ago, when he lost the chutes heading in and had to stop before the highway.  I think that was before the net.

[Glen]

The net was made for USFRA several years ago. It has been offered to Other users if they wanted it. The BMW stream liner drove around it and ended up in the Breedlove pond. Myself I would choose the net.

[DCarr511]

I have a friend who drives a Semi from Reno to SLC daily and he is going to start sending me pictures of the Salt Flats. I will post them as I get them.

[jl222]

I have a friend who drives a Semi from Reno to SLC daily and he is going to start sending me pictures of the Salt Flats. I will post them as I get them.

  Cool

           JL222