#582

Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #582
Date of adventure: 8/28-8/29/21
Camping on the shore of Utah's post-apocalyptic-looking but weirdly beautiful Great Salt Lake, near a large-scale land art installation called Spiral Jetty. This was one of my favorite campsites of all time!
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[@murphtahoe1]

Sarah, Make sure to flush the wheel wells and the underside of your Toyota to flush any excess salt off of your cars body, axles, etc. It can cause problem’s in regards to corrosion. Just an FYI…

[@skycop56]

My grandmother used to swim in the salt lake. Because of the density floating on the surface is easy for anyone. I believe she swam at some sort of resort. That would have been about 1935-40.

[@Step-n-Wolf]

I swam there in the 60s. Was a nice shower to wash off the salt.

[@robertmongerthe9025]

@@Step-n-Wolf Probably either Salt Air or Blackrock. I was born and raised in SLC and spent a lot of summer days on the south end of the lake.

[@melodiemetz1904]

I just love how you find the beauty in every place you go. The desert and barren lands you visit truly are probably not beautiful at first sight to most. But when you really sit back and watch a sunrise or sunset and just take it all in. This beautiful area really is amazing! Thank you so much for helping people learn to appreciate and see beauty in a different way!

[@janetceniza8091]

You have camped in so many wonderful lonely places, what a way to spend your life. Seeing parts of the earth that no one even thinks about.

[@bjen72]

I remember the flooding of the Great Salt Lake. I lived in Utah from 1980 to 1990.

[@BL-jt3qt]

I've never been much of a history buff, but Sarah does have the knack of making it interesting with her style of story telling.

[@stankythecat6735]

Totally !

[@karenfoster22]

Living is SLC alot of time has been spent there. My little sister decided it would be a great idea to do a little off roading in her brand new VW she sank clear up to the cars axles, there were no tow services willing to help her out, she finally got 8 big beefy guys got out there and try to help finally after a number of sheets of plywood and elbow grease they lifted it out and she was free. I've walked out further than I should have and sunk clear to my knees glad I wasn't alone. lol b Have fun

[@garythomas4936]

Wonderhussy has that child-like quality of wonder about the world. The West, where she wanders, is full of vast, magnificent vistas and blue skies during the day and starry, starry skies st night. Priceless.

[@kerryjacobson5465]

Like I told Larry on his recent tour through those sites, I moved back to Utah 38 years ago, and I haven't been to the jetty, yet! Thanks for taking us along! You are, a desert flower!

[@tomgraham7755]

I have been to promontory point and the Golden Spike reenactment but never to the Spiral and I have lived in Utah for fifty years.

[@oldminer5387]

Wonderhussy, thank you for the up close and personal look at the lake. When I was a youth my parents would drive by the lake in route to visit my grandparents in northern Idaho every year and we never stopped to look. Back then cars had no air conditioners and they most likely did not want to broil in the summer heat.

[@doneown503]

I love hearing about other people's miserable (& memorable!) on the road stories, esp. with Mom & Pops. I had the only parents that did not stop at some 7-11 or McD's for a mid journey pit stop.

[@oldminer5387]

@@howardthompson4844 My dad two canvas water bags on the bumper. Old Dodge 6 cylinder that would over heat on mountain climbs.

[@tchin2020]

My WH “must visit locations” has filled 3 notebooks…all your amazing places are a must visit….now to get my mindset to travel hundreds of miles….alone…WH your my hero…

[@chrisjensen101]

I went there in about 2000 it had just become uncovered after being covered by water for 30 years. It was encrusted in white salt. The water was pink from the algae. Pretty cool

[@larrycipriani351]

Been a bit down lately, will watch this later 😃 thanks!

[@davidscheffler8809]

Thank You for another history lesson about the Great Salt Lake!!! Take Care and Stay Safe Wonderhussy!!!!!

[@matthewbliven2795]

Thanks I worked the lake for years, and never saw that.

[@melvinmulder7750]

Sarah shows us the wonder and fascination in everything. She could read the phone book and it would be great entertainment. Wonderhussy is a fitting name.

[@williambrown5763]

Sarah it’s amazing how the spiral was made I love the your knowledge you are giving us ❤️👍🇺🇸

[@bobbrostrom5690]

Back in the 80s when I was a teenage vagabond I rode freight trains across that causeway a couple times. You can see the different color water when the sun is right

[@DavidBriggsAdventures]

KZbin tried to recommend a cheap copy of you this morning. I laughed at the thought of someone attempting a bad copy of a National Treasure such as the One And Only Wonderhussy Adventures. Rest assured, nobody could ever compare. It would be like me trying to copy Mr. Beast content. Keep being awesome. Much love from J & I in Oregon.

[@paulnightwolf9043]

Link to Said copy 😏

[@DavidBriggsAdventures]

@@paulnightwolf9043 Sorry to say I clicked away when she started preaching about"well known" people who give away locations and only qualified people know how to behave at hot springs. Watched 2 minutes and got strong Karen vibes.

[@tomtheplummer7322]

Whenever I hear “cutoff”, I think of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson doing the Tea Time Matinee, when he gives directions via the Slauson Cutoff🤣

[@joemorrow7691]

🤣🤣

[@gep27]

Get out of your car, cut off your Slauson, get back into your car.

[@CarsandCats]

Drove past Slauson Ave last week and through the same thing!

[@williambrown5763]

Sarah as always 🤩 you are great human being and I 💕 your humor plus your gorgeous smile 😃 😍just keep up your excellent videos 💕🇺🇸👍

[@highcurrent1125]

21:40 I could wake up to that view everyday!

[@goofusmaximusII]

The "quivering" salt was unique as hell.

[@davidsul7052]

I was there in July. And the pink is a salt-loving algae. And the salt under the water is hard and sharp on the feet it will make your feet sore quickly when you walk into the lake. That part of the lake is saturated with salt. That spot is a long drive from Salt Lake City. And the wash-board road is hard on your suspension It will wear it out quickly. The south part of the lake is half-saturated. While you were there at the Spiral Jetty, I was chasing IDA in Louisiana.

[@Roatanlova68fmp71lliiiak]

🎶 Giant steps are what you take, walking on the Lake....🎶🎶

[@instructorlupe9678]

Lol! "There I was, running in my panties through the great Salt Lake!" Hahahaha, that made me wonder if you were the first! Lol Love your videos!

[@seanathair432]

Spiral Jety Nudie 😁

[@r0024smith]

You offer a wealth of information with your KZbin Video's I always enjoy watching and learning. Thank You!

[@brandonlee4175]

She's ready to go back on Jeopardy!

[@thierrycartier4225]

Great Art Explained on KZbin has an excellent short video which has vintage film and excellent commentary covering the Spiral and the other large works mentioned.

[@LarryB-fr1zo]

You have done many great videos, MJ. This one ranks high. Love it.

[@oldbluewolf1782]

I remember driving down I-80 with the Salt Lake running across the road under the sandbags lining the road.

[@johnhenryholiday4964]

I really enjoyed this episode, The historic and scientific information you imparted was impressive, I live in idaho and have never actually been to the great salt lake, I have seen it but never actually stopped there ... Doc

[@beepseatsfindingfoodtreasu8756]

I was lucky to have been there in 83 and again in 84. And saw the lake when it was up close to I-80. I must have passed right by there but it was under water. Thanks for the tour! 👍🇺🇸

[@Surviving_patriot]

83-84 was record flooding for the whole state. It will again some day too

[@tdubs5128]

I-80 is at the south end of the lake. Spiral Jetty is clear up on the north end.

[@OldPhartbsa]

I suggest doing some reading on Kit Carson and his explorations. He went damn near everywhere in the West.

[@jamesparker6876]

Fascinating Sarah. The foam is so odd. Lots of Love, James

[@trailingarm63]

Beautiful spot. It's like one of America's hallmarks. Rode across the saltpan on a motorbike about forty years ago. Remember it like it was yesterday. Nice film.

[@lisaflores9102]

I would love more videos of the compound evening walks w your sis and how kitty is doing.

[@ralphpatrick3071]

Loved your show and tell science class!

[@jerrymestas1231]

Kombucha, burp!!!!! Love it

[@kvdme]

Came back from wendover in the 80s. Water was flooding the interstate it was so high but the foam looked like it had snowed, couldn't see the road. The water was very high at one time where they had to redo the whole freeway by lake point and rise up the railroad tracks because it had flooded so bad. You can still see the pumps of the West desert.

[@tomfrye9037]

Wow! That place is a trip(8-). The foam is the part that baffles me. I can kinda wrap my mind around the rest of the strange chemistry. But the foam gets me puzzled. Thanks for letting us tag along, Darlin', and hope you didn't bust up the drone too badly. Much love.

[@VampFaye]

This place looks beautifully calm. The spiral is very cool. I love to live life vicariously through your videos! Hugs 💜💜💜

[@lesterreed9948]

Really like the view, you find the most interesting places . Thanks for posting

[@909Adventures]

Awesome, such a cool video thanks for sharing I'll probably never make it out there so thanks for visiting for us.

[@raymondmoore2707]

The mountains of the moon with a lake

[@sco3592]

The places are cool but they are nothing but rocks, salt, trees and earth. You make the place’s undoubtedly fun, funny, sexy, and cool.

[@michaelsonleitner5724]

Thank you Sarah Jane. Very interesting and informative…another place to add to see!

[@researcher707]

Such interesting dialogue. Thank You Madam! Made me smile to the end :-).

[@daveshimamura3422]

Thanks for the video on Spiral Jetty. Heard about it in the late 70’s and finally visited 2015. To me it is kind of spiritual. I like spirals.

[@muddawgkomm9642]

Thanks Sara Jane for lettin us come along, i love being able to explore with you from my home while waiting on my hip replacement surgery 😪. Soon I'll be able to get out again!

[@billytheearthworm573]

☝🥸 The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system either increases or remains constant in any spontaneous process; it never decreases. ... This is because entropy increases for heat transfer of energy from hot to cold

[@makot2378]

Very interesting salty content lol. What a vast desolate landscape.Another nice informative adventure Wonderhussy! 🙂😎👌👍👆

[@rhondalyn100]

*Always* appreciate the interesting facts that accompany your videos. Thanks for sharing your life of enthusiasm for discovery, Sarah Jane.

[@66whit66]

cool video. I live in salt lake, and it is really important that the lake stays full, not only for industry but for our environment. It is at a dangerously low level. If it dries up completely, the huge toxic lake bed will be exposed and essentially create a dust bowl for the salt lake valley and beyond.

[@minikin5569]

The Great Salt Lake, is what is left from being a primordial ocean...It always blows my mind

[@Jake-yx7ct]

Thanks Sarah Jane for the video lesson of the Great Salt Lake. That water is just a Morton Salt lake. Stay safe my Friend.💞

[@donaldschweitzer1573]

Some that pink water alongside I 80 on each side. I went swimming in the great salt lake. In the 1960s

[@matthewbliven2795]

Harmful things like arsenic blow off the shore. It also messes with lake effect snow. Snow is gold in Utah. Less snow. Less water back into the lake.

[@davejohnson3684]

Another good one. Good to seeing you wearing that (cute) sturdy footwear.

[@SCSlimBoiseID]

20:19 Those salty spherules look amazingly similar to the "blueberries" photographed on the surface of Mars by one or more of the rovers now exploring there. At the Great Salt Lake, we can assume that they likely were formed by the action of water, probably waves moving back and forth at the shoreline and thus forming the salt into balls. Could the same processes once have been at work on Mars to form the Martian blueberries? Pretty cool spot, what with the spiral jetty and all. Stay safe out there.

[@John-Nada]

Those martian "blueberries" have navels where they were once attached to "stems"

[@davidburroughs2244]

The ones on earth are formed of iron picked up, aggregated and carried down by tons of water washing it. It will be interesting if the scientists will figure out what and how the martian ones are made.

[@SCSlimBoiseID]

@@davidburroughs2244 Going just by the red coloration of the Martian landscape, my guess is that there is plenty of (oxidized) iron tied up in the soil there. If that's the case, then Mars must have had an oxygen-rich atmosphere at some point in its past. The CO2 in its current atmosphere sort of suggests that as well.

[@markdakins7559]

Another great video. I hope you already knew this, but after driving out onto the (especially if it is wet) salt, you should find a car-wash that will spray the underside of your car. That stuff is incredibly corrosive.

[@victorsandoval3083]

I am so glad I found your channel. I've only watched a few videos yet but I am really enjoying them. Its also really impressive how much info you put in these vids. Thank you and I believe I will begin working my way backwards through your channel now.

[@carolynnunes3922]

Always interesting content See you around, onward and upward bound! Hallelujah!

[@AdventuresintheHeartland]

That looks like such a cool place.

[@williamqueen1628]

It’s amazing how nature recaptures these art projects… my damn sandcastles only last 2 hours!!

[@genefrederickson8976]

Hi. Just wanted to say thanks for taking us along. Lived in Fallon NV (in the Navy!) and really enjoy the vids you made about the area. Kinda' like an off road reunion. :)

[@carrierhinier6291]

I thoroughly enjoy your videos ! I don’t know that I will ever get a chance to “go west”, but feel that you’ve done a bang up job of sharing all these places with us! I love how you present the info about each place and look forward to your surmising ideas!

[@stephenhudson6543]

That lake is a remnant of the Great lake Bonneville that covered like three states and there still could be a water pools underneath that salt flat

[@SinMore]

wow, that would be a fun place to eat mushrooms!! that foam would be a trip!

[@johnholcomn8560]

Shrooms with crunchy salt snow and salt foam? Recipe for the intervention tent

[@portlandsamber]

@@johnholcomn8560 Hi, dad.

[@johnholcomn8560]

@@portlandsamber Huh?

[@_Boregard_Rippy_]

...... take a can of Redi-Whip ... ?!!

[@danofiremano]

Thanks for sharing the great sights & sounds of this other worldly place!

[@paulsimonds9270]

What a beautiful piece of scenery and art work in the Great Salt Lake. Sounds like you also had some good camping, expect for the drone.

[@stratos175escape7]

Uniqueness is hard to find but you did in this video.

[@markgoecke2323]

We flew into SLC airport, back in the 80"s. The lake level was so high that water was actually encroaching on the airport property.

[@johnfraser6013]

Good show ! 👍

[@cjp1950]

Gotta say you are funny. I liked that Kombucha burp, and bright too!

[@davec9244]

WHO KNEW the view is so nice , I am talking Wonderhussy running in the salt in her underwire !!

[@chadchorniak1407]

Come back to Utah in the spring and discover sailing on Utah Lake down to Bird Island. Even camp overnight on it if you feel brave. 😜

[@Cdkeller]

Borrego Springs, California has some interesting “Land Art”. Cool statues in the desert. I lived and worked at a seasonal job there last winter. The Anza Borrego Desert State Park is what I think it’s in

[@LuckyLarry]

Galetta Meadows…..

[@skyking228]

You gotta wonder where she picked up the word "galoshes"... Always fun to watch, thanks!

[@jolenecreech7648]

Hi 👋🏻 WH …. When you decided to walk across the sand, instead of following the “designated path”, I quickly jumped back into my past… watching The Wizard of Oz. As a kid, I wondered why Dorothy and Todo didn’t just cut across the Yellow Brick Road, while the Munchkins sang their song!?!?!?! LOL 😂. The things kids think about!

[@PetePavloff]

About those pumps. I was visiting my family in '81 and the lake was high. I visited again in '83 and they were raising I80 because the old route was under water. In '87 they completed the pumps in the west part of the lake. They turned them on once to prove they worked. The lake had dramatically dropped by that time, so they dug a canal to feed water to the pumps. They have never been used to lower the lake level. I don't know if they even work now.

[@debraseiber8820]

The pumps are no longer being used just rusting away

[@Surviving_patriot]

Sarah you need to go see skinwalker ranch in Utah. It’s been very active lately

[@ot6662]

You..truly..AMAZING!!!

[@delbertcast3543]

You are the best hussy in my life ❤️

[@wythewinchester3236]

@Wonderhussey: Way back in 1954 the lake was much higher. My BSA troupe was passing thru S.L.C. on our way to Yellowstone N.P.. We stopped public beach and went swimming in the lake. Because of the salt content you just floated like a cork.

[@jackboling1675]

Thank you for the video 💙🇺🇲🙏

[@donbrackenreg2270]

The shape of the Spiral Jetty reminds me of a fern starting to grow before it shoots leaves.

[@reynardthefox]

Informative , very interesting, and tons of fun

[@truman42746]

Great video! The foam being blown by the wind and the foam at the edge of the water was amazing! You have mentioned many times that it was to windy to fly your drone. I fly RC airplanes and drones and most drones with GPS can be flown in more wind than you think. The GPS keeps them stable. I have flown one of mine in 25 mph wind. What kind do you have or after the crash, what did you have?

[@kenycharles8600]

Excellent presentation ambassador Wonderhussy!

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

Wow, the great salt pond...

[@TheRickreid]

The pumps are on the west side of the lake ready for when the next time the lake gets ready to flood

[@richwhitaker1506]

Another informative and picturesque camping vlog. Tbh my first glance at the thumbnail had me wondering who"Spiral Jeffy" was. You quickly cleared my confusion. Great drone shots. Hope it wasn't damaged. Very good tour of Utah.

[@jaminova_1969]

I could totally do that spiral with my 4x4!

[@TheRickreid]

World class duck and goose hunting along the marshes one of islands is a nursery for pelicans

[@christinabeth7649]

Ahhh you're in my neck of the woods! If you're still in these parts there's some fun ghost towns like iosepa.

[@jimmclaughlin5930]

Keep bringing it Sarah I'm watching and loving every minute 😁❤

[@roseapple8786]

Pretty interesting.

[@jimjackson1087]

Back in the 80’s Amoco (now bp) built a barge drilling rig and drilled some wells in the GSL Neat ! I remember it running over.

[@davidburroughs2244]

I've heard of BigPharma and the like, but this is the first time I've heard of BigShrimp! 🙈

[@kellycoleman715]

My folks took us to the Great Salt lake in 1966. My sister and I floated in it and were unpleasantly surprised to learn that the salt burns your skin like acid. It was no fun. Many years later I visited the Dead Sea in Israel. Very similar experience.