{"id":55323,"date":"2018-12-17T05:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=55323"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:56:52","slug":"winter-inversions-why-it-is-depressing-to-head-home-during-our-inversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2018\/12\/17\/winter-inversions-why-it-is-depressing-to-head-home-during-our-inversions\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Inversions – Why It Is Depressing To Head Home During Our Inversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our winter inversions in the Salt Lake City area are depressing to me and who knows what poisons we are breathing in with the particulates hanging in the air, the inversions cause breathing difficulties for many people and some, like me, get horrible headaches when the inversions build up.<\/p>\n

\"ClearClear air up in the mountains<\/span><\/p>\n

So it is nice to head away from the inversions into the mountains that surround Salt Lake City and climb above the filth that clouds our air. Yesterday that was the Stansbury Mountains where up near the top the air was clear and smelled great. I wasn’t seeing many birds so I took some cell phone snaps in one of the canyons.<\/p>\n

\"InversionInversion building over the Great Salt Lake<\/span><\/p>\n

But coming down the mountains is depressing during the inversions. You can see the north end of the Stansbury Mountain Range in this photo on the left and from that end see that nasty looking, kind of purple-gray mess that is just above the sagebrush covered hills? That is the inversion. If you look closely just above that crap just to the right of the center you can see the top of the mountains on Stansbury Island. The elevation of the Great Salt Lake is 4,206 feet, the highest peak on Stansbury Island is 6,647 feet or about\u00a0 a 2,441 feet difference.<\/p>\n

\"WhatWhat you can’t see in this photo is more important than what you can<\/span><\/p>\n

Here the inversion blocks out views of Stansbury Island, Antelope Island, The Great Salt Lake, the edge of the Oquirrh Mountains, the town of Grantsville and way off in the distance the Wasatch Mount Range too. They are all out there but can’t be seen through the crud.<\/p>\n

It makes it so hard to head home when I have been up where the air is clear knowing that the inversion will be hanging over me and in my lungs.<\/p>\n

\"InversionInversion creeping into the Stansbury Mountains<\/span><\/p>\n

Closer to Grantsville I can see the inversion moving towards the Stansbury Mountains, looks kind of like a fog but it isn’t, it is much more harmful than fog could ever be. And the view only gets worse the closer to Salt Lake City that you get.<\/p>\n

Unless the jerks on Capitol Hill start taking action on the inversion other than telling people not to drive during the worst of it these inversions will only get worse. Actions like holding industry accountable for the filth they<\/em> spew into the air and to quit giving the polluters passes.<\/p>\n

But they (greedy politicians and businesses that don’t care what you breathe) decided on building an inland port in a bird sensitive area close to the Great Salt Lake that will do what? Oh yeah, bring more pollution to mix in with the already poisonous inversions. Horrible for the people already struggling to breathe but I guess that is the price so that some well-connected wallets get fatter.<\/p>\n

Denver, CO cleaned up their “Brown Cloud” caused by inversions and there is absolutely no damn reason it can’t be cleared up here.<\/p>\n

I do get depressed some days on the way home from being up in the mountains and our winter inversions are why. Sorry for being a downer today.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

I could post a lot of links but if you want more information on our inversions just do a Google search using the key words “Salt Lake Valley Winter Inversion<\/span><\/a>“, I’m certain that will bring up tons of information because when I do it I see about 1,160,000 results.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do get depressed some days on the way home from being up in the mountains and our winter inversions are why. Sorry for being a downer today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1316,358,26,1314],"tags":[4005,771,6906,2058,373],"class_list":["post-55323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stansbury-mountains-utah","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-great-salt-lake","tag-inversion","tag-poisonous-air","tag-pollution","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/stansbury-mountains-inversion-mia-mcpherson-103547.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-eoj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75960,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/12\/10\/photographing-bald-eagles-at-farmington-bay-wma-during-an-inversion\/","url_meta":{"origin":55323,"position":0},"title":"Photographing Bald Eagles At Farmington Bay WMA During An Inversion","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Think carefully before you make a trip to Utah to photograph our overwintering Bald Eagles in the valley. 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