Road crews used a machinery to break up the boulders, but the road has not yet been cleared.
Shoulda got the Egyptians or the Incas to move it. :-)
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Posted on 09/24/2015 7:35:06 AM PDT by beaversmom
Shoulda got the Egyptians or the Incas to move it. :-)
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Zion is a mind-numbingly beautiful area, and Bryce canyon is incredible. The Grand Canyon is nothing but a big ditch in comparison.
Earlier this year a tree fell on car driving down a highway in southern Minnesota south of La Crescent. The tree killed the driver of the car. The trees around here aren’t nearly as big as the huge fir trees you’ll find in Oregon or California. But it was big enough. The wife and I frequently go cruising down that road.
I’ve never been to the Grand Canyon, but I DO LOVE Utah.
Beautiful park. Depending how long it takes to clear, for people on the wrong side of the slide it's a really long ride around.
Yikes! You actually saw one coming down?
I agree...nice safe distance, but would be awesome for sure.
Yep. About 50 yards in front of us.
I imagine that would make one think about things. Wow!
That is such a beautiful area. :)
You know what else is beautiful in that area?
Capital Reef.
Relatively few people go there. It has neat cryptobiotic soil.
There’s really cool petroglyphs there too.
The indians had never seen a wheel before the coming of the white man, and carved some next to all the other petroglyphs put there by their ancestors. It was fascinating.
That’s Red Mountain Pass, one road we don’t use during the winter months, Twenty years or so ago, a snow plow was
taken off the road by an avalanche, wasn’t found until late
spring.
The Madison Canyon landslide, six miles below Hebgen Dam, was the most devastating result of this earthquake. Nearly half of a mountain fell to the canyon bottom, covered part of Rock Creek campground, blocked State Highway 287, and dammed the Madison River, causing Earthquake Lake to form. Twenty six people were killed by this landslide, but only seven bodies were found. The remaining 19 are presumed buried under the landslide. This photo was taken the day after the earthquake.
Thank you for that link. Looking at the photos now.
I went through there some years ago. It’s still obvious where the new road detours up and over the slide area. It is massive.
Those poor folks in the campground were just gone.
“Those poor folks in the campground were just gone.”
That’s so sad. Mother nature can be a very cruel old girl. Here in Colorado it was the Big Thompson Flood that was huge news in the 1970s. I was just a kid then, but remember hearing about it a lot.
Big Thompson flood still Colorado’s worst
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_24134838/early-version-will-likely-grow
Excerpt from article:
Our leader decided we’d best get out of there. From what I saw the next morning, that was an excellent decision. Water later covered the road there, too. I spent the night at the Dam Store as the water rose. Helicopters were dispatched, but there was little that could be done. Our lights revealed picnic baskets, beach balls and propane bottles bobbing in the dark, roiling water that raced past us, but never any hands summoning help.
In the morning, we found those hands. The bodies were stripped of clothing and covered with mud. The first I saw was of a woman who we guessed was 18, not much younger than I was then. This thin margin between life and death was startling in my young eyes.
Eventually, 144 people were declared victims of the flooding that night (although one turned up alive in 2008 in Oklahoma).
And then this one also in Zion from just a few days ago:
Pictured: The seven California hikers swept to their deaths by flash floods in Utah’s Zion...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3338396/posts
Look for a car underneath it.... : )
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