(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Environmental activists Jack Strauss and Jennifer Weiler fly large balloons over the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon on Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021, to demonstrate the height of the gondola towers the Utah Department of Transportation plans to build. Save Our Canyons, a nonprofit that works to protect the Wasatch Mountains, sued the Utah Department of Transportation on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, citing the gondola plan.