A crew hired by the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance had been laboring in the hot sun for hours this summer when they suddenly came across a bomb.
“We were in the Wasatch, so we wondered if it was an avalanche bomb, because those are found every now and again,” said Julia Geisler, the executive director for the local nonprofit climbing organization.
“But it definitely wasn’t that,” she said.
The crew had stumbled upon the old munition, which could date back to World War II, while working to reroute an unsustainable trail up to Lone Peak Cirque, an alpine climbing destination near Draper.
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