Boy falls in Little Cottonwood Canyon

LITTLE COTTONWOOD CANYON — Search and Rescue volunteers were called to help a 15-year-old boy who fell close to 30 feet in Little Cottonwood Canyon Wednesday and was able to walk away with just cuts and scrapes.

Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Don Hutson said the boy's family had just moved to South Jordan from Virginia. He was hiking near Lisa Falls around 2:20 p.m. with his dad and two brothers and decided to continue hiking after they stopped at the bottom of the falls.

"The daredevil son decided to climb the falls … and just when his dad's about to yell at him to get down, that he's too high, he started sliding," Hutson said.

He said the boy slid 20 to 30 feet on moss and rock and sustained a number of "cuts, scrapes and abrasions," in addition to "tweaking his back a little bit." Hutson said all of the injuries were relatively minor.

Unified Fire Authority Capt. Clint Smith said the boy was transported to Primary Children's Medical Center as a precaution and summed it all up as "not a big incident."

"It was just a few minutes off of the main road and it was easy to access, easy to get out and get him on the way to the hospital."

— Emiley Morgan