there's copper in them hills!

Last week was my week off from normal life. I spent it in West Jordan with the fam.

First stop was the Kennecott copper mine in the west hills of the valley.

No, I did not actually get THAT high up.

Though they boast that you can see it from space, should you choose to go.

Facts:

--Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Mine has produced more copper than any mine in history - about 18.1 million tons.

--The mine is 2-3/4 miles across at the top and 3/4 of a mile deep. You could stack two Sears Towers on top of each other and still not reach the top of the mine.

--The mine is so big, it can be seen by the space shuttle astronauts as they pass over the United States. (Told you.)

--If you stretched out all the roads in the open pit mine, you'd have 500 miles of roadway - enough to reach from Salt Lake City to Denver.

Here it is.

It...


...reminded me of this:


My ma and the kiddies:


These trucks were sooooooooooooo slow.

So what if they're as big as a house and weigh as much as a jumbo jet.

Wussies.


But they were huge. I wouldn't want to come across one in a dark ally.


Really.