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12-03-2020, 01:57 PM
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Wondering what's the purpose of these roads. There is nothing on top of those elevations.
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I think those are layers if it is in the location I believe you are showing.
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12-03-2020, 02:14 PM
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Location: Utah
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Wondering what's the purpose of these roads. There is nothing on top of those elevations.
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Those are ditches put in to control erosion and reduce flash flooding down hill from those peaks. My grandfather used to put those in with a bulldozer working for the Forest Service. He might have even put in those very ones (can recognize the mountain from the pictures, looking at the other side of it out my window now). |
12-03-2020, 02:17 PM
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Location: Utah
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Flying from Factory Butte UT toward Escalante National Monument saw this weird circles.
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Less certain about these, but I think those are ant hills. The ants clear out the vegetation for a bit around the nest, you sometimes end up with a ring of extra grass/brush at the edge from the extra water. Regularly see similar when walking in the great basin parts of Utah. |
12-03-2020, 02:19 PM
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Those are ditches put in to control erosion and reduce flash flooding down hill from those peaks.
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Sure does look like water bars to me, we used to do them after a fire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterbar
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Rv-10, N210LM.
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Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
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12-04-2020, 06:15 AM
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Circles are where the worms come out to feed on hapless downed pilots. Be sure to bring dynamite / satchel charges and a damsel to be in distress at the right moment.
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12-04-2020, 09:45 AM
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They are bomb craters
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Dropped by a lost cold war navigator - he thought he was in Siberia!
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12-05-2020, 12:41 PM
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Water
Ill go with the water suggestion. Check out the erosional vein stemming downhill from most.
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12-05-2020, 12:50 PM
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Reminds me of a "Boil" that would happen near a levee when there was river flooding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_boil
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Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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12-09-2020, 06:36 AM
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December Dust Devils
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12-09-2020, 03:59 PM
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Free gas
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Being an old(er) glider pilot, I’d be circling in a heartbeat to get free gas (altitude) especially in the 9 with 10 degrees of flaps at idle!
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