YM/YW Joint Activity

Just a few photos from YM/YW joint activity tonight. We were going to go up the canyon for an outing, but decided to stay at the Ward. Had a great time! Lots of hot dogs, chatting, volleyball, and marshmallows. Even some prize winning marshmallows.

A Day at the Office

A group from work went out to the other side of the Great Salt Lake, actually half way to Wendover, turned north about 30 miles, and watched the destruction of a C4 motor segment. It took about an hour and a half to get there, about 2 hours of waiting, and you can see how long it took to destroy the motor segment. In the video the dark blue line in the background is the Great Salt Lake. The first video is on a tripod and the second one I was holding and sort of shows you what it really felt like. We were two miles away on a place affectionately know as "Bug Hill" obvious reasons. Turn the sound up...

Now for what it felt like...........

You can see the shock wave roll across the desert floor. Dark line moving quickly.

I've added a picture of the group that went out and a picture of the hole it left in the ground. They were trying to get a picture of the smoke coming out of the top of my head - missed.

The soldiers that set the explosion off (top center of picture) are there training for deployment to Iraq. They are the ones that detonate the roadside bombs if they find them before they explode. Billy looks older than any one of them. As we were looking at the hole after the detonation, I said, "Thanks" and told them that it "was really cool". One of them got the biggest smile and said, "It always is!". And it really was............