Huge boulder tumbles onto town next to Zion National Park
Another boulder is set to tumble down and smash things-
Massive rolling boulder rocks town of Rockville, UT. Buildings, vehicles damaged; another rock unstable. By Mark Havnes. The Salt Lake Tribune.
In the comments to this article in the SL Trib, one person wondered if folks looked uphill before they built? I have often wondered about this in towns set in deep canyons.

Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He has been a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and also its President. For many years he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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I hope no one was hurt.
A few years back, my wife and I were descending the Angel’s Landing trail in the park (highly recommended) when a rock about the size of a golf ball came whistling down from above and landed between the two of us! If it had hit I’m sure it would have killed one of us. I’m not sure if it fell naturally or was propelled (thrown or kicked).
I’m not a religious person per se, but on that day we were either blessed or lucky or both!