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A climbing club’s scrapbook could put Little Cottonwood Canyon on the register of historic places. Will it also put the district out of reach of the gondola?

Routes from 1962-74, credited with putting Utah granite on the climbing map, would be the registry’s first ‘vertical trails.’

(Alpenbock Club via Marriott Library, University of Utah) This photo showing Steve Utley and Doug Calder teaming up on a climb was featured in the Alpenbock Club scrapbook. The book details routes established in Little Cottonwood Canyon between 1962 and 1974 that have been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.

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Julie JagOutdoors Reporter

Julie left the beach of Santa Cruz, Calif., where she worked for 17 years, for the mountains of Salt Lake City in 2019. She has covered the NBA Finals, the Super Bowl, the World Series, the Maverick's big wave surf contest and two Olympics. A Colorado native, she enjoys creating her own adventure, occasionally with her husband and two kids in tow.