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“Gummy would stay in a logging camp without plumbing?” Reyna said incredulously. “Our glamorous Gummy, who had a different ski outfit for every day of the week?”

“I know, I still have a hard time imagining it,” my mother responded with a smile. “But within a few years, and with funding from Grandaddy, Hans upgraded and built a lodge in an area known as the Bugaboos.”

“But Grandaddy never really saw any return from these investments, right?” Reyna asked. “It’s not like our family makes any money from owning rooms here.”

“No, but that was never part of it for him.” My mother smiled softly, her almond-shaped eyes looking up to the auburn and green hillsides. “He always called it a passion of the heart.”

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Before my grandparents were born, others had their own stakes in this same landscape, but for different purposes. In the mid-1800s, gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were unearthed in the Wasatch and in the Oquirrhs, the mountain range across the Salt Lake Valley. The discoveries attracted miners to the Utah mountain ranges. The township of Alta was created up Little Cottonwood Canyon to accommodate thousands of miners, along with railroad cars to get the materials and mined minerals up and down the canyon.