Documenting the Destruction of the Wasatch Moutains by the Wasatch Powderbird Guides
In one of the greater ironies of the Wasatch Heli Wars, the Forest Service prohibits jeeps, dirt bikes and ATV’s from tearing up the Wasatch Mountains, but for some reason allows helicopters. Fortunately a Heli-Free Wasatch supporter was able to fix the trailhead sign:
The link below takes you to a PDF document which was compiled by the Wasatch-Cache National Forest as a result of the Jan 2005 Wasatch Powderbird Guides bombing campaign which senselessly devastated large tracts of trees in the central Wasatch Mountains. With known avalanche instability, the Powderbird Guides went on a bombing joyride which triggered massive avalanches in the backcountry, tearing out trees and weakening the snowpack in the process.