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Stair-Step Cut

  • Leave you car here (stop #4) momentarily and take a closer look at the unfinished cut on your right. Please pull off to the left. Rock impasses like this were breached in stair-step fashion. Several crews worked on a cut, but from opposite sides and different levels. The result was a systematic and efficient method of removing rock.

    This cut located in Weber or Echo Canyon, 1868, is attacked on five levels allowing each crew to stay clear of the others.

 

Stair-step cut at Stop #4 on the West Auto Tour. Take a look at the Eagle Scout project that improved visitor access.