Photo by Tom Kelly
The early morning sun crept up over the eastern horizon. Its rays started painting splotches on the ski runs across the vast Park City ridgeline. It was a stage show of light as the heavens waved their magic wand, illuminating the mountain peaks, down pristine white ski runs and igniting the fresh rime crystals hanging delicately on the sagebrush with the dawn’s early light.
I’ve watched this scene for three decades from our home and it never gets old. It’s the light switch telling me to get out the door. As a photographer, I look at the nuances of light on the landscape. They tell a unique story every day.
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Cyle Buxton, left, and Jake Slater, an engineer for Reaveley Engineers, tour a mine tunnel opening on property that Buxton owns in Cardiff Fork of Big Cottonwood Canyon on Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. Buxton hired Slater to inspect his property, as well as a mine tunnel opening and structures that are on public land in the canyon.
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COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS Cyle Buxton wanted to close an abandoned mine on his property in Cardiff Canyon because of what he said was a steady stream of trespassers and fears that someone could get hurt, despite his signs to stay out.
SALT LAKE CITY Snowy conditions caused multiple slide-offs up Big Cottonwood Canyon and closed both directions of state Route 190 for awhile on Thursday, according to Unified Police Sgt. Melody Cutler.
A slide-off crash was reported up the canyon along with another crash further down. While an officer responded to that crash, someone hit the patrol car, though the officer was uninjured in the incident.
Both uphill and downhill traffic is now permitted after uphill traffic was closed for about an hour around 6:30 p.m.
Traction laws are in effect for both Little and Big Cottonwood Canyons.
The northern Utah snowstorm could bring up to 10 inches in the mountains and 4 inches in the valleys on Thursday, according to KSL Meteorologist Grant Weyman.
Big Cottonwood Canyon back open after being closed for several hours
and last updated 2020-12-17 22:20:50-05
SALT LAKE COUNTY, Utah â Unified Police have reopened Big Cottonwood Canyon to uphill traffic after closing it Thursday afternoon due to multiple slide-offs.
The closure affected SR-190 from the mouth of the canyon to Cardiff Fork, which is at milepost 10.7, according to the Utah Department of Transportation.
A Unified Police spokesman said the closure will remain in effect until UDOT can plow the roadway and the cars that slid off the road are cleared. Since the roads have been cleared, the road is back open.