A horizontal pipe on the flagpole reveals the monument's purpose to honor Pilots Charles Butterwick and Charles Ives, who lost their lives in a plane crash on this site in 1943. The metal surrounding the monument are pieces of the plane that hikers have found and retrieved from the hillside.
Read MoreATV ride on Hardscrabble Trail System. Big Mountain & UNP 6926. Enterprise & Central West - UT quads
The trail takes a sharp turn up the ensuing bank at a weird angle, and a stupid tree sits just on the left. As soon as the tires stop sliding, I gun it at the turn and nearly lose my grip. But the tires take the traction and spin me back onto the trail. A lot of people love the adrenalin rush of a close call like that one. I don't.
Read MoreATV ride on Hardscrabble Trail System. Enterprise - UT, quad
Dixie National Forest has been hard at work installing an ATV trail system in the area named Hardscrabble. I don't know the reason for the name, but I am looking forward to riding some of the trails.
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