Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
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Olympic storyteller who loves skiing, Jeeping, photography, European travel, and the NFL. Honored member US Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame.
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Aug 30
Sunday Drive: An afternoon adventure on Main Street - Park Record
I pushed down on the plunger of the detonator box, sending a pseudo-signal through the wires to the dynamite deep in the mine. “Cover your ears,” I yelled out to Dakota. She dutifully put her hands to...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Aug 17
Sunday Drive: Late night pickin' at the Rockport Dam - Park Record
The bright glow of a nearly full moon — the sturgeon moon, as it is called — was coming up over the Rockport Dam as we wandered in the darkness through an open field. Off in the distance, warm light s...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Jul 19
Sunday Drive: Rainbow of color on a summer mountain hike - Park Record
The indigo blue lupine were gently swaying in the light morning breeze as we hiked up alongside the Crest Express lift at Brighton. It was one of those weekend days you long for with azure blue skies,...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Jul 13
Sunday Drive: All aboard for the golden spike - Park Record
Little puffs of smoke drifted skyward from the stack of the brightly painted Jupiter steam locomotive, its red, blue and gold trim gleaming beneath the desert sun. The engineer leaned out of the cab, ...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Jun 28
Sunday Drive: When the Jeep tires become rock stars - Park Record
There I was, sitting in my Jeep Rubicon deep in a dense forest somewhere between Daniel’s Pass on U.S. 40 and Wallsburg. I hadn’t seen a soul in hours. Ahead of me lay a mud bog of undeterminable dept...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Jun 21
Sunday Drive: Going radioactive in the Idaho desert - Park Record
Carole and I stared at our ginormous atomic burger from the counter stools at Pickle’s Place in Arco, Idaho, population 879. She wondered how we were going to eat it. I was more concerned if it was ra...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· Jun 11
Sunday Drive: Bluegrass, ballads, pork and garlic scapes - Park Record
It was a quiet Saturday morning around 8:30 a.m. as we sat in The Rose Establishment in Salt Lake City. While enjoying a wonderful herb and cheddar biscuit with apple butter, we mapped out our plan. J...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· May 21
Sunday Drive: Trolleys and trains in historic old Sandy - Park Record
Entering the museum, my eyes were immediately drawn to a painting by Dale Minson of downtown Sandy in 1911. A horse-drawn water tank was calming dust on the dirt streets, while an electric trolley sto...
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Tom Kelly
@tomkellyolympic.bsky.social
· May 18
Sunday Driver: Driving through generations - Park Record
As we flew along the highway southwest of Myton through the oil and gas rigs dotting the high desert, it wasn’t lost on us what 19th century pioneers endured running supplies to Fort Duchesne on the M...
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