A Friend of the Park Rag recently pointed out something about the Mountain Accord that we hadn’t heard discussed… the impact on water and water rights. Evidently one of the things known by those mining the Wasatch is that the mountains are very “wet.” That means that a large amount of water is stored in the …

Sometimes you want something so badly that you ignore reality in order to fool yourself into thinking that it will work. We’ve learned more about trains in the last few weeks than we ever thought we would (and 6 of my uncles used to drive/ride trains for Union Pacific). We’ve learned that it likely won’t be high …

Want to learn more about Mountain Accord but you haven’t been able to make the meetings? This Wednesday, four key parties will he having a discussion online about the Accord. It’s billed as a debate, so we hope some hard questions are asked and answered during the meeting. The participants include: Laynee Jones, Mountain Accord …

One thousand eight hundred fifty feet is over a third of a mile. It’s also the elevation difference between Brighton and the base of PCMR. After writing our last article about the time a cog rack train would take to get up Little Cottonwood Canyon, a concerned citizen enlightened us on a factor we had …