It's Autumn time.....

Or it was when these pictures were taken. Towards then end of September Jared and went out to Tooele for the open house for our new call center (for work) On the way home we wanted to go to Salt Lake city so we decided to go up over the mountain so I could do some leaf peeping. They hadn't really started changing too much but the ride was still pretty.

We had some time to kill before we had to be at a friends birthday party so we decided to drive up to the copper mine and check it out. It had been a few years since we had been up there. For my readers that may not be from around here, here is a little information about the mine
The Bingham Canyon Mine, also known as the Kennecott Copper Mine, is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. It's the deepest open-pit mine in the world. It is owned by Rio Tinto Group, an international mining and exploration company headquartered in the United Kingdom. The copper operations at Bingham Canyon Mine are managed through Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation which operates the mine, a concentrator plant, a smelter, and a refinery. The mine has been in production since 1906, and has resulted in the creation of a pit over 0.75 miles (1.2 km) deep, 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and covering 1,900 acres (7.7 km²). According to Kennecott, it is the world's largest man-made excavation.[3] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 under the name Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine.[2]

These dump trucks look so small when zoomed it but they are quite large as apparent in the picture of the tire shows.

Topographical map of the pit over the years.

The visitors center has a lot of information on the history of the mine over the years and people were coming in by bus loads. It was a nice change of pace from what we normally do.