POTD October 8, 2013: Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah

Wasatch Range, Salt Lake County, Utah.
Photographer: Stefan Kirby

A winter storm clears from Superior Peak (11,132 feet) in upper Little Cottonwood Canyon southeast of Salt Lake City. Beneath its thick blanket of snow, Superior Peak is made up of tilted Precambrian-age sedimentary rocks, including the Big Cottonwood Formation and overlying Mineral Fork Tillite.