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Show B2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH US. 89 Events Give Visitors Taste of Utah Past Bob Sorensen allowed visitors to sample rhubarb wine and punch, chutneyandsalsa. “Except for our grand opening, it is the busiest day we have ever had,” said Wood. “Everybody is interested in rhubarb.” In Spring City, potter Joe Bennion’s craft showis a big part of the annual historic building tour where 11 homes, one business and one church were open to public view- @ Continued from B-1 towns,” she said. “People are fun and notas rude.” Ephraim was a hubofactivity ing. Bennionsaid he had never seen so manytourists in one day. “T am meeting a lot of new people,” he said. “Normally, I know with historic walks and bus tours, American Indian dancing in Pio- neer Park and bluegrass music. everybody. I am seeing a lot of people I haven’t seen before. We In the MountPleasant City Hall, closet andlet people see them,” she printed 800 tour maps and I am worried that we are going to run out.” In Kanab,a gift shop operator said the first arts festival drew a good crowd of folks who enjoyed weaving and welding demonstrations as well as dance andpoetry. Festivities continue through said. Antique appraiser Russ Evans the weekend with Marysvdle’s town reunion days continuingto- of Fountain Green said lines of up day and Monday, the quilt show open in MountPleasant, Richfield High hosting a bluegrass gospel Velma Moosmantold the story of her father, LeRoy, who started making quilts after suffering a heart attack at age 68. He did not quit until he died at 91. She showed off some of her dad’s quilts at the low-key show. “It’s nice to get them outof the to 30 people formed at theold railroad depot in Mount Pleasant on Saturday morning as_ people band today and Page,Ariz., show- learned the worth of someof their treasures. He sawa silver-nitrate ing off Navajo crafts ata Monday evening festival. Shops and historic bed and breakfasts are open alongthe Heritage Highway muchofthe year. Other festivals follow throughout the summer in towns such as photograph of the Civil War done in the 1860s with a wooden frame that. could be worth several thousand dollars. MountPleasant’s first rhubarb festival was was a hit as Native Wine owners Winnie Wood and Panguitch, Fountain Green, Alton and Torrey. S.L. Climber Diesin Ice Slide Wagner was pinned behind ice bouldersfrom theslide. Oneof the falling ice rocks broke the climber’s left leg. Wagner worked him- self free in about 15 minutes, but failed to find Shaw beneath the debris. OnAlaska Trip Wagner somehow managed to DannyLa/TheSalt Lake Tribune Expansionof the road through Provo Canyon, shownnear the Sundanceturnoff, is the costliest nonfreeway road project in Utah history. Provo Canyon: 25 Years, $100M Just the Beginning @ Continued from B-1 ski up the Ruth Glacier, where he @ Continued from B-1 found other climbers Friday morning. One of those climbers 20 years of experience.” Sunday, May 28, 2000 wentfor help. . Three others wentto the slide area to look for Shaw andlater ra- Added friend Mark Owen: “He was a total gun; he was super strong. I've climbed with him and dioed a nearby air taxi for assis- tance, Tranelsaid. The parkservice wasnotified at he knew what he was doing. He lovedthe outdoors, that’s where he workedand whereheliked to be.” As of Saturday, Shaw’s body hadnot been retrieved and might 11:10 a.m., accordingto Tranel. She said Talkeetna Air Taxi flew the injured climber to Talkeetna, where he wastreated at the Sunshine Medical Centerandreleased. “Unfortunately,this is the first fatality in the Alaska Rangethis season,” Tranelsaid. “And wecertainly hope it’s thelast.” Meanwhile,friends said Shaw, wholived in Salt Lake City with his girlfriend, would be missed for his climbing prowess as well as his neverbe, park rangers said. They said conditions were too danger- ousandthelocation of the bodyis too high-risk for rescuers. Wagner, 34, told rescuers that he and Shaw had climbed Mount Johnsonlast week and hadbeenat their Ruth Glacier camp near the 5,000-foot level since May 15, Tranel said. They left the camp about 7 p.m. Thursdayto practice ice and rock climbing. outgoing nature. “He obviously was a fantastic climber, oneof the best in Utah,” Rosssaid. The pair encountered the ice wall about an hour later at the “But he was a better person 4,500-foot level. Wagner was near testing the ice with an ice pick when a 50-foot-high chunk col- than a climber. He was happy-golucky,he'll be sadly missed around here.” lapsed on top of Shaw, who had been taking photographs near the base oftheicefall, Tranelsaid. Tribune staff writer Michael Vigh contributed to this report. anice caveat the base of the wall, being the costliest nonfreeway roadproject in Utah history. Before beginning the next phase, a 5.3-mile stretch from Wildwood to Deer Creek State Park, UDOT is conducting yet another environmental impact study of the entire project. State transportation engineers also are looking to shore up thesteephillside cuts made along canyon walls between UpperBridal Veil Falls and Wildwood. The contractor that was supposed tofinish that task was dismissed for substandard performance, adding another year to the long and winding road project. Besides firming up theslopes, UDOT wants to substitute concrete barriers for the guardrails origi- any talk of beginning the next phase is premature. “My concern is they will start up phase three without solving the problemsthat arose in phase two,”she said. Of particular concern to environmentalists: The HooverSlide, a geologically unstable area east of Wildwood where a massive slide three years ago shut down the highwayfor two weeks. The date to begin widening the next section of U.S. 189 is a moving target, subject to environmental concerns and the whims offickle and frugal legislators and federal bureaucrats. UDOT officials hope to resume workafter the environmental study is finished. Nelson said a draft should be completed next fall and the final document readyfor federal highwayofficials’ perusal 10 months after that. Once. thatis done, the projectis tossed in the mix with all other state transportation jobs and must compete for federal and state dollars on a HeberCity aes The wideningofU.S. 189 up Provo Canyon is the costliest nonfreewayroadproject in Utah -history, and it’s far from finished. Crews have widened 15 miles from Orem to the Wildwood subdivision, but another 12 miles hasyet to be expanded.Tabsofar: about $100 million. Te DeerCreek Wallsburg State Park é‘ NORTH SFr” Deer Creek Dam comme Completed Next Phase * Future Expansion yearlybasis. Nelson concedes the project is long and expensive. But, he adds, it’s still cheaper than the $1.59 billion I-15 overhaul in the Salt Lake The Salt Lake Tribune across its downstream slope. Material to build that segment probably will come from the rock UDOT will be excavating between the dam and HeberCity. “Tt helps us out by beefing up gued would damage the Provo River, an erstwhile world-class trout fishery. But supporters of the U.S. and to accommodate more traffic. There have been 60 serious accidents on the mountain highwayin the past four years. Among the more taxing improvements once the next phase gets under way will be at Deer Creek Dam. UDOTis negotiating with the U.S. Bureau of Reclama- 189 expansion insist more lanes are tion to replace the two lanes atop Reclamation field engineer Curt necessary to make the road safer the dam with four lanes that cut Pledger. nally envisioned to divide traffic ‘alley. “That’s costing a million Janes. Thus far, the public has seemed amenable to the change.If the Federal Highway Administra- dollars a day,” he said. Still, $100 million is a lot to throwat a project that some skep- tion agrees, concrete barriers will tics long insisted was not a high priority and environmentalists ar- be placed along certain stretches of the road. Julie Mack, executive director of the North Fork Preservation Alliance, is pleased about the new environmental study but believes The Long and Winding Road Project ° Accident Mars Day of ATV Funin the Sand Dunes our dam, and UDOT won't have a long haul to get rid of the material it is excavating,” said Bureau of FOR THE RECORD BY MARK HAYNES © 3 DIE IN PLANE CRASH ‘THESALTLAKETRIBUNE Thesearch for a small airplane en route to Utah ended Saturday when search teams found wreckage and three bodies in the central Colorado mountains. The plane LITTLE SAHARA RECREATION AREA — Several thousand Utahns gassed up and geared up Saturday to tackle the sand dunes atLittle Sahara Recreation Area on four-wheelers, three-wheelers, two-wheelers and,.if there were bet one would havebeenthere as well. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which operates the 61,000-acre area, anticipated the busy Memorial Day weekendby calling in extra helpfrom offices in Delta and Richfield to deal with the crowd, and with cuts and bruises from accidents, But the free-wheeling turned serious in onecase. A 9-year-old boy from Tooele was critically hurt when the rear wheels of an older model three-wheeled all-terrain vehicle he was riding froze as he was coming down a sand dune and the machine flipped over. According to Ferris Clegg, the BLM area's manager, Cameron Shields wasridingin the areaas part ofa family outing when the accident happened at about 3 p.m. BLM rangers, emergency medical techni- cians and deputies with the Juab County Sheriff's Office cordoned off the area, waving ATV riders away to allow a medical helicopter to land. As the boy who waswearing a helmet — was worked on, his parents comforted him and others held up blankets to shield him from the sunin the 90-degree heat. The helicopter took the boy to Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, 20 minutes away by air, where he was in critical condition Saturday night, said hospital spokeswomanBonnie Midget. For Willard Fullmer, such accidents are predictable at the sand dunes on holidays such as Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune ATV riders enjoy themselves SaturdayatLittle Sahara Recreation Area’s Sand Mountain, However, a 9-year-old Tooele boy was critically injured when his ATV flipped over. landscape. The dunes were created when ancient Lake Bonneville — which stood in what is now the Sevier desert in west central Utah until 10,000 years ago — dried up. Winds swept away sandbars along the lake's south shore, and the fine grains of sand were trapped by the southern tail of the West Tintic Mountains, 150 miles to the northeast, and formed the 124 square miles ofdunes that give riders sucha thrill today. The dunes, with a consistency of mushy snow,still Memorial Day and Easter when as many as. 30,000 people converge to play on their motorized toys, Last Easter two people were killed in accidents while riding on the dunes, about 145 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. Besides Fullmer, a team with the West Juab Ambulance Department waited at the visitor's center to transport injured riders to area hospitals, leave.” ; Fullmer said a lot of the accidents occur when people ao Sying over. crept of a bill and crash-land;the people are over the dlebars. Many times alcohol is involved. Full mer recommends scouting the terrain or having a spotter at the top ofa hill to let the rider know when it is safe to go. He says that unlike a trail in the mountains, sand dunes are a constantly changing ants. At the mountain's bottom, ATVs drove around everywhere creating such a racket that it was hard to hold a conversation. Putting up with the noise was Kay Guymon, whohad trailer set up Saturday to supply riders everything from spare parts to firewood to sunglasses to ham! . Yelling above the din, she said she has seen it all. Most memorable were the riders who strapped a couch onto the back ofan ATV soa rider could drive his friends up the mountain. She has also seen mattresses strapped on machines. Asked if there was much drinking by the riders, she answered: “They =when they arrive and stop when they Sends. and “barns when inebriated ere the motorcycle of their For many who come to the park, the pilgrimage ends at the the steep, 700-foot of sand tional at the baseofthe mouritain and riders over its barren face like motorized ' Most of the riders are young men. Children — as young as 8 —also get into the excitement. Under adult supervision,it is legal for children as young as 8 to ride an ATV if they have sucsees ane seener vehicle education course, Every rider younger than 18 must wear a helmet. Robert Andrus, 18, likes the rush of adrenaline the ATVsprovide. et Oe nennn eeeofhis shirtless in agreement. “I Ina over the et hilo aun heext Q 12-year-old daughter, Civil Air Patrol Major Mike Spray said. The plane’s occupants were not immediately identified. The Colorado Civil Air Patrol found the plane hear a crest of the Continental Divide. The disay Fridayafter it took off from Jefferson County Airport en route to Halls Crossing on the Colorado River in southern Utah. Spray said an emergency beacon signal helped search teams find the wreckage. FALL KILLS TEEN A Salt Lake County teen-ager was killed Saturday afternoon whenhe fell offa 30-footcliff in Big Cottonwood Canyon. The 16-yearold boy’s name had not been released. He had been hikingwith his girlfriend andsister just before 3 p.m. when he fell, said Salt Lake County Deputy Larry Turpin. When search and rescue crews reached the boy Saturday at the MossLedge area of the canyon, he was dead, Turpin said. Qa Qa carried a pilot, a woman and her sucha thingasan all-terrain unicycle, it’s a sure on June 3 and July oflast year, respectively. QUAKE NEAR BORDER ‘alley in ithwestern Colorado, 6 miles eastof the Utah border. The temblor was registered at 3:58 p.m. abut 16 miles east of La Sal, according to Jim Pechmann of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations. “It was probably felt by people in the immediate vicinity,” an said, but no reported. Earthquakes with aatitute of3.7 and 3.8 occurred in the same area 200-ACRE BRUSH FIRE Bureau of Land Management crews were battling a 200-acre fire sparked by lightning along the Arizona strip, about 3 miles southwest of Motoqua, Utah. The fire ‘was reported at 2:20 p.m. Saturday by a lockout post on Arizona's Black Rock Mountain. Thirty firefighters were battling the blaze, about 23 miles northwest of St. it, said BLM spokeswoman Bette Arial. 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