Thanks to reader Matt Marshall for these images… he writes:
“You have to drink a lot of water to keep up with the evaporation. Me and a friend went on a hike up at Alta a couple of weeks ago. We hiked Sugarloaf Peak and across Devil’s Castle (all rock). It was not even this dry, and I ran out of water and my tongue was sticking to the roof of my mouth. I should have brought two liters instead of one. Part of the problem was that we decided to go down the front of Devil’s Castle through a chute that ended up being much more difficult and much longer than we thought. I am thankful we made it down. Here are a few pictures from the hike that you might like to see. We ran across a big ole mountain goat up on Devil’s Castle. I don’t know how they so easily walk across terrain like that. The panorama shot is looking south toward Mt. Timpanogos.”
