As a soaring pilot who uses such clouds to stay aloft, calculating cloud bases from the ground is one of many weird things that I do. Although they were probably 100 or more miles away, I tried to guess the height of their bases. I admired their unique shapes, born of rising air and condensed water vapor. There, I could see a long band of white and gray cumulus clouds flying in a straight line from west to east. The water’s surface was dead calm, and the sky was cloudless - except on the northern horizon. I quickly looked across the lake while navigating the ramp’s gradual left turn. My discovery occurred while driving toward and down the SR-201 off-ramp to westbound Interstate 80 at Black Rock. But on a cold, clear morning in October, I unexpectedly discovered the lake is not so horizontal after all. Look out from the lake’s southern shoreline, and except for Stansbury and Antelope islands, the water appears flat as slate to the horizon. Or, to me, the flattest of them all: The Great Salt Lake. Take the world-famous Bonneville Salt Flats, for example, or the Great Salt Lake Desert. Yet, the county is perhaps more renowned for land features that go out instead of up. Tooele County has more than a dozen mountain ranges, several with summits that crack 10,000 feet above sea level.
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