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Get a kick out of Bucket List: Cataract Canyon (hold on tight)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:01:56 MDT

Get a kick out of Bucket List: Cataract Canyon (hold on tight)

By Brett Prettyman | The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 17, 2013 05:01PM MDT

Canyonlands National Park • The Colorado River in southeastern Utah is a tricky creature. It cradles and coddles rafters for lazy, languishing days before throwing them into a cascading crush of chaos and conceivable catastrophe in Cataract Canyon. It was something explorer John Wesley Powell experienced in a dreadful way 144 years ago and an adventure that people today travel from across the world to experience, albeit in much less-dramatic fashion. Selecting places to visit for The Utah Buck...

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Sunny Fathers’s Day, but three wildfires continue to rage

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:40:39 MDT

Sunny Fathers’s Day, but three wildfires continue to rage

By Janelle Stecklein The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 16, 2013 11:40PM MDT

Firefighters spent Father’s Day battling three wildfires in rural Utah. Sunny skies and high temperatures dominated the state Sunday, and hot and dry conditions will rule through the middle of the week, increasing the chance of new wildfires. Three fires continued to burn out of control Sunday. One fire threatened uninhabited structures on the Tavaputs Plateau in eastern Carbon County. The Rock Creek Fire, sparked by lightning, burned about 15 miles east of East Carbon and had scarred about 180 ...

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3 blazes burn in southern Utah as wildfire danger remains high

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 23:27:51 MDT

3 blazes burn in southern Utah as wildfire danger remains high

By Janelle Stecklein and Kimball Bennion The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 15, 2013 11:27PM MDT

With a hot, dry weekend in store for much of Utah, three wildfires continued to burn out of control. All three fires were in rural parts of the state, but some uninhabited structures on the Tavaputs Plateau were threatened by one fire burning in eastern Carbon County. Fire danger remained high across much of southern Utah. The Rock Creek Fire, sparked by lightning, burned about 15 miles east of East Carbon and had scarred about 235 acres on steep rugged terrain that has so far been inaccessible...

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Mandatory evacuation orders lifted in Colorado wildfire

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:07:27 MDT

Mandatory evacuation orders lifted in Colorado wildfire

By DAN ELLIOTT

Updated Jun 14, 2013 07:07PM MDT

Colorado Springs, Colo. • Authorities lifted evacuations in a wide swath of terrain outside Colorado Springs on Friday as they said a surprise rain shower helped them expand containment of a wildfire that has destroyed 400 homes. Just one day after clearing out the Flying Horse neighborhood in northern Colorado Springs, officials allowed people back into at least 1,000 houses. They also re-opened an eastern swath of the nearby Black Forest area in El Paso County. Incident Commander Rich Harvey s...

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Where in Utah was this photo taken?

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:13:08 MDT

Where in Utah was this photo taken?

Updated Jun 14, 2013 10:13AM MDT

This week • Correctly name where in Utah this photo was taken to be eligible for a drawing for the book Utah by Tom and Gayen Wharton. Entries must be received by 5 p.m. June 18. Email your guess to outdoors@sltrib.com with “Where Is It?” in the subject line. Last week • Forty-six of the 51 entries correctly identified a view of Snow Canyon State Park from the northernmost parking area along Snow Canyon Drive. Ted Symes had his entry drawn and wins a copy of Fishing Utah by Brett Prettyman.

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Planners deny Tavaci’s high density zoning request

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:11:29 MDT

Planners deny Tavaci’s high density zoning request

By Mike Gorrell The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 13, 2013 12:11PM MDT

Tavaci suffered a setback Wednesday in its first formal proceeding after returning to Salt Lake County’s jurisdiction. While elated, opponents of the controversial development were not doing a victory dance after the County Planning Commission voted unanimously to deny developer Terry Diehl’s application for higher density zoning for his 47-acre parcel on a bluff overlooking the Salt Lake Valley from the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. “Just because the Planning Commission says something doesn’...

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Scout leader dead, 5 rescued at canyon near Nev.-Ariz. line

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:48:02 MDT

Scout leader dead, 5 rescued at canyon near Nev.-Ariz. line

The Associated Press

Updated Jun 10, 2013 04:48PM MDT

Boulder City, Nev. • A Boy Scout group that took a hike in a Colorado River canyon over the weekend had tried to beat the heat by starting early, but they were no match for temperatures that soared to 115 degrees. Scout leader and Las Vegas resident Clawson Bowman Jr., 69, was found dead Saturday afternoon about a mile from the trailhead, according to officials with the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Four other Scouts and another adult had to be rescued. “It’s just a tragic day for our scou...

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Canyon wildfire is burning east of Tooele

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:33:37 MDT

Canyon wildfire is burning east of Tooele

By Michael McFall The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 10, 2013 04:33PM MDT

Firefighters expected to contain a 40-acre wildfire near Tooele by Monday morning. The Flood Canyon Fire, named after the canyon it’s burning in, is a few miles northeast of Tooele. The blaze started in the flats near the canyon about 4:25 p.m. before working its way east and uphill, said LJ Brown of the Bureau of Land Management. About 30 firefighters, with the help of an air tanker that dropped a load of retardant, and expected to have it fully contained early Monday. Down canyon winds are pus...

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Living History: Remembering the last days of the Pinecrest Inn

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 22:59:38 MDT

Living History: Remembering the last days of the Pinecrest Inn

By eileen hallet stone The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 8, 2013 10:59PM MDT

Lately I’ve been gleaning fragments of early Emigration Canyon history. You know, the electric railroad that freighted sandstone during Salt Lake City’s turn-of-the-century building boom and the luxurious Pinecrest Inn that offered cool breezes and a warm welcome at the end of the line (see May 12 and 24, 2013, The Salt Lake Tribune, “Living History”). Last week, I was told of Gordon A. Christenson’s boyhood adventures and the inn’s demise despite his family’s best efforts to save it. “Emigrat...

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Teen who escaped from Provo youth facility pleads guilty

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:54:12 MDT

Teen who escaped from Provo youth facility pleads guilty

By Janelle Stecklein The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 6, 2013 10:54PM MDT

A teenager who escaped from a residential treatment school in Provo, then stole a vehicle and caused a fatal crash has been sentenced to confinement by the Youth Parole Authority, possibly until his 21st birthday. The boy, who was 17 at the time of the crime but is now 18 and not from Utah, pleaded guilty earlier this year to felony manslaughter, burglary, stealing a motor vehicle and fleeing, authorities said. The Salt Lake Tribune does not typically identify juveniles charged with crimes. On...

Westbound I-80 near Parleys Canyon shut down by crash

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:27:03 MDT

Westbound I-80 near Parleys Canyon shut down by crash

By Bob Mims The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 7, 2013 09:27AM MDT

An accident late Thursday morning closed down the right lanes of westbound Interstate 80 near the mouth of Parleys Canyon east of Salt Lake City. Utah Highway Patrol Cpl. Todd Johnson said a semi-trailer rig partially rolled onto a traffic barrier wall, rupturing one of its “saddle” fuel tanks and spilling an unspecified amount of diesel. The male driver sustained minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to be checked out at a hospital. Johnson said the driver told troopers he had looked down a...

Victim in I-80 crash near Lambs Canyon identified

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:33:21 MDT

Victim in I-80 crash near Lambs Canyon identified

By Bob Mims The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated Jun 5, 2013 11:33PM MDT

Utah Highway Patrol troopers say “aggressive driving” was a factor in the death of a man who crashed his pickup truck on Interstate 80 near Lambs Canyon. Anthony R. Watt, 57, of West Valley City, was dead at the scene of the crash about 7 p.m. Tuesday. No other injuries were reported, UHP Cpl. Todd Johnson said. Watt was driving westbound when his Dodge pickup veered into the median and vaulted over a concrete barrier wall and onto the oncoming lanes, crashing into an underpass. remims@sltrib....

Man dies in I-80 crash near Lambs Canyon

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:56:28 MDT

Man dies in I-80 crash near Lambs Canyon

Updated Jun 4, 2013 10:56PM MDT

A man died after his pickup crashed Tuesday on Interstate 80 near Lambs Canyon. The man was driving west about 7 p.m. when his Dodge pickup went into the median, entering a 20-foot space between two concrete barriers, the Utah Highway Patrol reported. When the truck reached the Lambs Canyon underpass, it launched into the air and crashed into the opposite side of the underpass. The man died at the scene; no one else was injured. UHP had not identified the man as of Tuesday night. Witnesses told ...

Move the zoo

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Move the zoo

Updated Jun 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT

When I read that funds have been “allocated to pave and stripe the boulevard that runs from 1300 East to Hogle Zoo,” my attention was again called to the traffic problems around the zoo (“S.L. City Council discussed proposed bike lanes, changes for Sunnyside Avenue,” Tribune, May 29). In the narrow entrance to Emigration Canyon, we find overcrowding of large and small caged animals, cars, kids, teachers, parents, grandparents, strollers, cyclists, bikers, hikers, home and condo owners and the h...