Yesterday's News Today

It seems like only yesterday that I posted an article lamenting the "drips and dribbles" of information that was coming out of City Hall re the Peterson Gondola project. (Actually I posted my laments the day before yesterday... on Wednesday)

But who's counting the days anyway? The important thing is that our Ogden City Lord Mayor was on johnny-on-the-spot yesterday, providing an excellent explanation of the whole kit-and-kaboodle, the whole Grand Scheme, in yesterday's Standard-Examiner editorial section.

Lo and behold, we now have an article that describes the whole Grand Plan.

It's intricate and exciting, so says our Lord Mayor. It's like a Swiss watch, wherein every little "component" relates in an engineering-way, to all the other components. If one fails, the whole machine fails, so says the Lord Mayor of Ogden City, Utah.

It's thrilling to ski industry executives too, Mayor Godfrey repeatedly reminds us.

"Are you guys really going to build a gondola from downtown to the ski resort," the ski company board chairman asked.

"You're totally nuts, arntcha," is what he probably mumbled under his breath.

Well there it is folks, in all its fascinating interlocking engineered intricacy.

You be the judge whether it's exciting... or merely scary.

There was a second article published yesterday in the Std-Ex, which falls again into the "drips and dribbles category," I'm afraid. It says something about Ogden City's proposed "leasing" of the magnificent trails that penetrate the canyons east of Ogden City. Those of us who've used those trails over the years didn't even know we might have been "trespassing," as we wound our way up through waterfall canyon to the bottom of Malan's basin over the past 150 years.

Here's the story about the City's plans for the trails system over the old Malan family property, which has now become the latest prize in the extended Sinclair Oil family estate.

And here's a little something about the Prescriptive Easement issue, which the local "pine-cone eaters" are raising re this situation. I'm not at all sure myself whether the City's leasing of the trails leading up to the eastern mountain face would extinguish a prescriptive public easement, if it exists at all. I seriously doubt it though -- and I know more than a little bit about such matters.

I'll offer my apology to local Std-Ex readers, for whom this article may seem to be "old news." I'd planned to post something like this yesterday, but my non-cyber real-life got in the way. I'm posting this now, mainly for the sake of the many Weber County Forum readers who check in here from the hinterlands, just so they can keep abreast from afar about the continuing strange happenings in the land of Oz.

What say our gentle readers though, about easements, the Grand Plan, or any of the rest of this?

It's YOUR forum people. Please don't be shy about chiming in.