California man dies after fall from cliff in Utah’s Kane County

California man dies after fall from cliff in Utah’s Kane County

By Mark Havnes
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Jul 27, 2011 02:02PM MDT

A 37-year-old man from California was killed on Saturday after he left a popular canyon hike in Kane County known as The Wave and fell 100 feet down a cliff trying to make his way in the dark.
Tracy Glover, chief deputy with the Kane County Sheriff’s Office, said on Wednesday that Bo Pian had a permit to hike on Saturday in the popular sandstone sculpted canyon on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Others saw him hiking alone.
Glover said it was dark Saturday night because there wa...

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