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Show - I ; fjeut BAcitBofje W"t-, : :: - lJdK ; m ''he TOWN OF BOULDER, UTAH, 35 PACK-TRAIN MILCS NORTH- EAST OF ESCALANTE, WAS ISOLATED FROM THE WORLD FOR pf t;J$ yEARS BY TOWERING WALLS OF SOLID ROCK. A PICK-UP p TRUCK, IN PIECES, WAS PACKED INTO BOULDER, REASSEMBLED 1' , J AND WAS RUN FOP. EIGHT YEARS WITHOUT A LICENSE. V4 M GASOLINE, AT 75 PER GALLON WAS ALSO PACKED IN. Kf i :-', pi?; JM HELL'S BACKBONE, WHICH ALLOWS ACCESS TO BOULDER fV ;aj IS A KNIFE-EDGED RIDGE, SPLIT BY A NARROW CREVICE, pfi iP ON BOTH SIDES ARE PRECIPITOUS .WALLS THAT DROP FOR H y HUNDREDS OF FEET, WITH DEATH HOLLOW ON ONE SIDE, 15 g AND SAND CREEK CANYON ON THE OTHER. JJ m A BRID6E, BUILT ACROSS THE CREVICE IN 1935, EN- 1$$' ,t ABLED A HIGHWAY TO E-- bUILT CONNECTING BOULDER '$ Mi WITH HIGHWAY 177, THUS BRINGING TO AN END THE LAST f$S PACKHORSE TOWN IN THE COUNTRY. |