Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-12-31 | Page 30 | 'Bucking Snow' at Alta Hard on Man and Beast

BUCKING SNOW AT ALTA ALTAI I HARD ON MAN AND BEAST Bucking snow from Tanners Tanners Flat Flatto Flatto Fat Fatto to Alta Ala camp is now the or order er of tho the thoda da lay day according to the latest word from Wasatch and tho the little Cottonwood canyon canon This Is to open a line lne for tor the oro teams and so that camp supplies may be ho tal taken ol up tho the canyon Tho Thio wa way It IL is cone lone done ono one of ot tho the prominent Alta operators explained yesterday uI Is this Where here the tho snow has drifted six or ten oc or ox more moro feet teet deep across the road two stout horses are sent ahead They hey plunge Into th the th snowbank Sometimes they thoy first go in over their ears The They plunge a time or two and sit down on their haunches ant exhausted An opening Is tramped down at their slUes sHies and the they aro are led lcd out and a fresh tresh new team Is put In Sometimes the new horses flounder and ant cut themselves ba badly l' l but never nc cr the time old old Alta AHa teams The They know their bu business And so It goes Sometimes as many manyas as 30 to 10 JO horses are on hand to help helpIn In cutting through and solidifying solidifying- the future road When finally finalY the drift has hos been passed and it I ma may be several se hundred feet across sleds with sa say half a tone of ot oro ore are brought down over tho the new snow higI highway way These are arc gradually increased In weight until several se tons are aro aro on a single lo and good progress Is made with wih to 1000 pounds to the load All l this travel packs the road hard and ald solid sole as ice Some Somo seasons when all aU the tho other snow in tho vicinity has melted and aIl flown own away thero there stands tho tim packed highway four to five the feet teet hl high h like 10 a lon long block of ot ice and snow cut out the width of a wagon track