Eureka • Amanda Hunt hopped out of her fiance’s silver pickup truck and walked tentatively toward a broken down backhoe left — or dumped — in rocky, sagebrush covered hills.
It was mid-afternoon in early February. The day started stormy, with fast-falling snow that assailed Hunt and the nearly 30 others who gathered that morning at Tintic High School to receive their marching orders. Later, though, the clouds cleared to make room for the sun.
“It’s so desolate,” Hunt said, as she walked around parts of Juab County. “It’s so much ground. You just don’t know, you know?