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Wasatch Range

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The Wasatch Range is a mountain range that stretches approximately from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States. [1]

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Abies lasiocarpa

Abies lasiocarpa, commonly called the subalpine fir or Rocky Mountain fir, is a western North American fir tree.

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Alta Ski Area

Alta is a ski area in the western United States, located in the town of Alta in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, in Salt Lake County.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Artemisia tridentata

Artemisia tridentata, commonly called big sagebrush,Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, Great Basin sagebrush or (locally) simply sagebrush, is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae, which grows in arid and semi-arid conditions, throughout a range of cold desert, steppe, and mountain habitats in the Intermountain West of North America.

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Basin and Range Province

The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.

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Bear Lake (Idaho–Utah)

Bear Lake is a natural freshwater lake on the Utah-Idaho border in the Western United States.

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Bear River (Great Salt Lake)

The Bear River is the largest tributary of the Great Salt Lake, draining a mountainous area and farming valleys northeast of the lake and southeast of the Snake River Plain.

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Bear River Mountains

The Bear River Mountains, or Bear River Range, is located in northeastern Utah and southeastern Idaho, forming the eastern boundary of the Cache Valley.

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Beaver Mountain

Beaver Mountain is a ski area in the western United States, in northern Utah.

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Ben Lomond Mountain (Utah)

Ben Lomond, just north of Ogden, Utah, is a peak in the northern portion of the Wasatch Mountains.

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Big Cottonwood Canyon

Big Cottonwood Canyon is a canyon in the Wasatch Range southeast of Salt Lake City in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Blue spruce

The blue spruce, green spruce, white spruce, Colorado spruce, or Colorado blue spruce, with the scientific name Picea pungens, is a species of spruce tree.

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Book Cliffs

The Book Cliffs are a series of desert mountains and cliffs in western Colorado and eastern Utah, in the western United States.

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Brigham City, Utah

Brigham City is a city in Box Elder County, Utah, United States.

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Brighton Ski Resort

Brighton Ski Resort is a ski area located in Big Cottonwood Canyon, from downtown Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Cache Valley

Cache Valley is an agricultural valley of northern Utah and southeast Idaho, United States that includes the Logan metropolitan area.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Zephyr

The California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno.

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Climbing area

A climbing area is a small geographical region with a concentration of opportunities for climbing.

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Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.

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Deer Valley

Deer Valley is an alpine ski resort in the Wasatch Range, located east of Salt Lake City, in Park City, Utah, United States.

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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.

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Douglas fir

Pseudotsuga menziesii, commonly known as Douglas fir, Douglas-fir and Oregon pine, is an evergreen conifer species native to western North America.

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Echo, Utah

Echo is a census-designated place located in Summit County, Utah, United States.

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Eden, Utah

Eden is a census-designated place in Weber County, Utah, United States.

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Francis Peak

Francis Peak, Elevation, was named in honor of an early pioneer, Esther Charlotte Emily Weisbrodt Francis, who contributed to the colonization of the Morgan Valley in Morgan county in Utah.

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Ghost town

A ghost town is an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains substantial visible remains.

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Granite

Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.

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Great Basin

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

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Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

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Great Salt Lake effect

The Great Salt Lake effect is a small but detectable influence on the local climate and weather around the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States.

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Greater sage-grouse

The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is the largest grouse (a bird species) in North America.

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Green River (Colorado River tributary)

The Green River, located in the western United States, is the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

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Heber City, Utah

Heber City is a city in Wasatch County, Utah, United States.

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Helper, Utah

Helper is a city in Carbon County, Utah, United States, about southeast of Salt Lake City and northwest of the city of Price.

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Hiking

Hiking is the preferred term, in Canada and the United States, for a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails (footpaths), in the countryside, while the word walking is used for shorter, particularly urban walks.

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Huntsville, Utah

Huntsville is a town in Weber County, Utah, United States.

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Idaho

Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States.

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Interstate 15

Interstate 15 (I-15) is a major Interstate Highway in the western United States.

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Interstate 80

Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental limited-access highway in the United States that runs from downtown San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York City Metropolitan Area.

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Interstate 84 (Oregon–Utah)

Interstate 84 (I-84) is an Interstate Highway in the United States with two non-contiguous sections.

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Liberty, Utah

Liberty is a census-designated place in Weber County, Utah, United States.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Little Cottonwood Canyon

Little Cottonwood Canyon lies within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest along the eastern side of the Salt Lake Valley, roughly 15 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Logan Canyon

Logan Canyon is a canyon that cuts its way through the Bear River Mountains, a branch of the Wasatch Range, in northeastern Utah.

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Logan Peak

Logan Peak, commonly referred to as Mount Logan, is a peak in the Bear River Mountains, a branch of the Wasatch Range.

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Lone Peak (Utah)

Lone Peak, a mountain peak southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States is the center of the Lone Peak Wilderness, established in 1978.

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Mount Nebo (Utah)

Mount Nebo is the southernmost and highest mountain in the Wasatch Range of Utah, in the United States.

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Mount Ogden

Mount Ogden is a peak in Weber County, Utah, United States in the northern Wasatch Range.

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Mount Olympus (Utah)

Mount Olympus in the U.S. state of Utah is one of the most prominent and recognizable mountains viewable from practically every location in the Salt Lake Valley.

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Mount Timpanogos

Mount Timpanogos, sometimes informally referred to as Timp, is the second highest mountain in Utah's Wasatch Range.

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Mountain biking

Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.

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Mountain range

A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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Naomi Peak

Naomi Peak, or Mount Naomi, is the highest peak in the Bear River Mountains of northern Utah and southern Idaho.

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Nephi, Utah

Nephi is a city in Juab County, Utah, United States.

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Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

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Ogden, Utah

Ogden is a city and the county seat of Weber County, Utah, United States, approximately east of the Great Salt Lake and north of Salt Lake City.

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Park City Mountain Resort

Park City Mountain Resort is a ski resort in the western United States in Park City, Utah, located east of Salt Lake City.

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Park City, Utah

Park City is a city in Summit County, Utah, United States.

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Parley's Canyon

Parley's Canyon is a canyon located in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Pfeifferhorn

The Pfeifferhorn is the triangularly-shaped peak located in the most isolated part of the Lone Peak Wilderness Area of the Wasatch Mountains in northern Utah, United States.

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Picea engelmannii

Picea engelmannii, with common names Engelmann spruce, white spruce, mountain spruce, or silver spruce, is a species of spruce native to western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta, southwest to northern California and southeast to Arizona and New Mexico; there are also two isolated populations in northern Mexico.

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Pinus ponderosa

Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, or western yellow-pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to the western United States and Canada.

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Populus tremuloides

Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen.

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Powder Mountain

Powder Mountain is a ski resort located just east of Eden, Utah, stretching between Weber and Cache counties, and only 55 miles from Salt Lake City International Airport.

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Provo Canyon

Provo Canyon is a canyon in unincorporated Utah County, Utah, USA and Wasatch County, Utah.

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Provo, Utah

Provo is the third-largest city in Utah, United States.

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Quartzite

Quartzite (from Quarzit) is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

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Quercus gambelii

Quercus gambelii, with the common name Gambel oak, is a deciduous small tree or large shrub that is widespread in the foothills and lower mountain elevations of western North America.

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Relative humidity

Relative humidity (RH) is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor to the equilibrium vapor pressure of water at a given temperature.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is an activity in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls.

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Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, also known as the Rockies, are a major mountain range in western North America.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Salt Lake City Public Library

The Salt Lake City Public Library system's main branch building is an architecturally unique structure in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Shoshone

The Shoshone or Shoshoni are a Native American tribe with four large cultural/linguistic divisions.

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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis.

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Ski touring

Ski touring is skiing in the backcountry on unmarked or unpatrolled areas.

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Snow

Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.

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Snowbird, Utah

Snowbird is an unincorporated community in Little Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S. It is most famous for Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort, an alpine skiing and snowboarding area, which opened in December 1971.

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Soldier Summit, Utah

Soldier Summit is the name of both a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah and a ghost town located at the pass.

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Solitude Mountain Resort

Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Sundance Resort

Sundance Mountain Resort is a ski resort located northeast of Provo, Utah.

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Temperate coniferous forest

Temperate coniferous forest is a terrestrial biome found in temperate regions of the world with warm summers and cool winters and adequate rainfall to sustain a forest.

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The Salt Lake Tribune

The Salt Lake Tribune is a daily newspaper published in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah, with the largest weekday circulation but second largest Sunday circulation behind the Deseret News.

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Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Timpanogos Cave National Monument is a United States National Monument protecting the Timpanogos Cave Historic District and a cave system on Mount Timpanogos in the Wasatch Mountains in American Fork Canyon near American Fork, Utah, in the United States.

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Twin Peaks (Utah)

There are actually two sets of well-known Twin Peaks of the Wasatch Front in Utah.

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U.S. Route 189

U.S. Route 189 is a spur of U.S. Route 89.

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U.S. Route 6

U.S. Route 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the U.S. Highway system.

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U.S. Route 89

U.S. Route 89 (US 89) is a north–south United States Highway with two sections, and one former section.

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U.S. Route 91

U.S. Route 91 (US 91) is a north–south United States highway.

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Uinta Mountains

The Uinta Mountains are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

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Utah County, Utah

Utah County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Utah Native Plant Society

The Utah Native Plant Society (UNPS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation, preservation, conservation and responsible use of the native plants and plant communities found in the state of Utah and the Intermountain West.

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Utah State Route 39

State Route 39 (SR-39) is a state highway in northern Utah connecting Ogden to Woodruff via Ogden Canyon and Huntsville.

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Wasatch County, Utah

Wasatch County is a county in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Wasatch Fault

The Wasatch Fault is an active fault located primarily on the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains in the U.S. state of Utah.

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Wasatch Front

The Wasatch Front is a metropolitan region in the north-central part of the U.S. state of Utah.

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Wasatch Mountain Club

The Wasatch Mountain Club is a recreational outdoor club for adults based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Weber Canyon

Weber Canyon is a canyon in the Wasatch Range near Ogden, Utah, through which the Weber River flows west toward the Great Salt Lake.

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Wellsville Mountains

The Wellsville Mountains are located in northern Utah, United States and are often considered part of the Wasatch Mountains.

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William Bright

William Bright (August 13, 1928 Oxnard, California – October 15, 2006 Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics.

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Wolf Mountain

Wolf Mountain (formally titled Wolf Creek Utah Ski Resort) is a small local ski area in the Ogden Valley near Eden, Utah.

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2002 Winter Olympics

The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Salt Lake 2002, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated from 8 to 24 February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasatch_Range

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