A large rockslide left a path of destruction down a popular trail in Little Cottonwood Canyon on Monday, obliterating trees and harming the trail.
SANDY — A huge rockslide pulverized a popular hiking trail and climbing area up Little Cottonwood Canyon, with boulders crashing down hundreds of feet. Not only did people in the area catch the slide and its aftermath, volunteers are already working on trying to clean it up.
Lenz and Smoot, both longtime climbers themselves, knew the debris was bad. They just didn't expect it to sprawl as far as it did. "I heard what sounded like a lightning strike, and then thunder, you know, a low, large rumble," he said, making a rumbling noise. Rogers had just pulled up to the Gate Buttress area to meet a friend to go climbing.
Rogers flagged down police and hiked up the hill to make sure no one was climbing where an estimated house-sized rock broke off and violently tumbled down the hillside. It shattered into human-sized sharply pointed boulders that took down trees and obliterated the trail down to the trailhead. A large rockslide left a path of destruction down a popular trail in Little Cottonwood Canyon Monday, obliterating trees and harming the trail.
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