Saturday July 5th: SLAS had a star party scheduled at the Wolf Creek observing site. Only 2 SLAS members, Daniel Turner and Robert Taylor showed to what turned out to be probably one of the best skies I have seen in Utah, yes, rivaling the best of Bryce Canyon. There were some early clouds right around sunset creating a few doubts but very shortly after sunset the clouds disappeared not to return at all for the remainder of the night. A pretty crescent Moon didn't stay with us long and soon dropped below the horizon leaving the sky an inky black with the exception of a little sky glow out to the west that didn't affect the western sky too much. Overall the skies were very transparent, the Milkyway blazed away with sharp clear dust lanes and massive and distinctive star fields reaching across the entire sky from horizon to horizon leaving both Daniel and myself to comment that "there were too many stars". The Veil was incredible, M7 and M6 in Sagittarius were easy naked eye objects, the Lagoon Nebula was very obvious. We were treated a nice transit of Io across Jupiter starting around 1am, we watched as a distinctive bullet hole shadow marched across the disk of Jupiter till the early hours. We were joined by family camping near the observing site. They were struggling to learn to use a nice Orion XT8 they recently acquired. We showed them how to find objects and showed them around the sky a bit showing them what an 8" can do with a fantastic sky. They joined us at our scopes as we toured the night sky with them for over an hour going from one object to another. The sky was so clear many of the objects we hunted were naked eye and easy and very bright targets for the big Dob, lots of OOOHS, AAAHS and WOWS. They were ready for bed by 1:30 am; we gave them a SLAS star party schedule and invited them to come to one of our star parties and left Daniel and myself to enjoy the sky for another few hours. We hunted down all manner of objects from nebulas, galaxies, and especially globulars, all were stunning in the dark clear steady sky with the 16" scope we were using. Daniel was scouring the sky with binoculars picking-off globular after globular intermixed with nebulas and galaxies racking up over 2 dozen globulars before night's end. By the early hours we could see the Pleiades rising above the trees to the east of the site followed by the early morning sky glow and called it a night. The temperatures stayed fairly mild all night, it dipped into the high 40s but the absence of any wind made the temps quite tolerable and even pleasant. The skies were very transparent and the seeing remained fairly steady all night long giving some of the best views of Jupiter I have ever enjoyed, the bands were very well defined, festoons were obvious and cloud details were many, the transit shadow was very obvious. Overall an outstanding night of observing, most satisfying, it was not a night to miss. Robert Taylor