Word: canyoneering
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...night last week a Forest Service employee stationed in Coldwater Canyon, high above the town of North Ogden, Utah, heard trees snapping and boulders rolling. One hundred residents fled for shelter to a Mormon center moments before a river of mud slithered into three houses. North Ogden Mayor Don Colvin, who is also a Mormon Church officer, informed another church official of the crisis. In less than an hour 200 Mormon volunteers had arrived to reinforce the banks of Coldwater Creek. By 3 a.m., 5,000 sandbags were in place. Says Colvin: "People were out here all night, filling those...
Tiny Thistle, Utah, a historic railroading town 60 miles south of Salt Lake City, was once considered an idyllic mountain retreat. No longer. Unglued by record spring rains, a 125-ft. wall of muddy earth swept into nearby Spanish Fork Canyon two weeks ago, backing up the small Spanish Fork River for two miles and creating a natural lake, 50 to 80 ft. deep, that has swallowed up the hapless hamlet. Residents of the town's 22 homes fled, and no lives were lost. But despite attempts to drain the new lake, the water has continued to rise...
...Clark Street. But the crowd swings into a turn left onto Goethe Street. The kids are all staying very close together. When it turns, the crowd seems to act as one, its arms waving, its helmets bobbing, flowing into the smaller street like a river rushing through a canyon...
...briefing, which was reportedly successful in alarming even some moderate Congressmen, puzzled other Central America watchers who have noticed little change over the past few months. "The Administration has a credibility gap as wide as the Grand Canyon," said Representative Stephen J. Solarz, a Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "Last month they were optimistic, saying the light was practically at the end of the tunnel. This month they're pessimistic, saying the end is at hand unless we take emergency action. So what do we have? A hype...
...first thought, the idea of preserving New York City's 31-year-old Lever House as a historic landmark seems absurd. To some observers, the 24-story, blue-green glass slab seems shabby and unimpressive in the ice canyon of Park Avenue's taller and newer glass slabs. Yet last November the city's unsentimental landmarks preservation commission said that Lever House was worth saving. It pronounced the building in effect as important a memento of America's history as, say, the gilded facade of Grand Central Terminal, about ten blocks down the avenue. Now Fisher...