Day 25 - still in Park City. We went on a white water rafting trip. There only two rafting sites around Salt Lake City and we chose the longer and swifter on but it was not really "white water". I guess it would be rated a weak 2 on a five scale, but since it was a hot day and the water was cool, we had fun. To get to the launch site we drove 24 miles east on I-80 and then 3 miles north on I-84. The rafting was on the Weber River:
We were lucky to get our own raft and guide who's name was Tron:
The original alignment of the Union Pacific railroad follows the Weber River on it approach to Promontory Point. Along the tracks are telegraph poles that were part of the Trans-continental telegraph that connected east and west as much as the railroad did.
This tree was planted by the Union Pacific railroad to mark a point that is 1000 miles from San Francisco and 1000 miles from St Louis:
to be continued...…