Thanks, Joe. I did many more solo adventures when I was younger - not so many since. I never really thought of the CP grade trip as dangerous, just another interesting adventure. It was before I owned my first cell phone. Couldn't have called in the troops in the event of an emergency like one can almost anywhere these days. Larry is right about how desolate the area still is. Imagine constructing the RR across it in 1869. You can see drilling marks in the rock, some artifacts, and even follow the miles of parallel grade constructed by CP and UP. Brent, I would have to check but I think it was October of '94 or '95. Larry, I was working with the Union Station in Ogden when Trestlewood was salvaging the Lucin Cutoff trestle, also in the '90s. Something well over a million board feet of lumber, as I recall, were salvaged from the trestle, including piles up to 180 feet long - all old growth douglas fir and redwood from the original construction, pickled in salt. I had a great trip by boat out to their salvage barge one day with the director of Union Station. Anyone who lives near the lake will know of the large spiders that UP imported from South America specifically to control the brine flies on the trestle. Now I think that they infest the entire shoreline of the lake, and the trestle was literally draped in perhaps millions of spider webs. I was too creeped out to leave the boat. (Hate spiders.) The salvage crew told me their bite was painful, but not particularly dangerous. I was not amused. Kim