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.

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.’

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