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Now, Anvil Canyon takes its name from a group of Mormon pioneers who spent the better part of two months wandering the area in the 19th century, searching for a gold deposit that someone had supposedly located there on a previous expedition, but they found nothing.

And when they finally gave up and left, they threw the heavy iron anvil they had hauled all the way in behind them

unwilling to carry it back through the terrain that had already cost them so much.

So the road that had once cut through the canyon had been functionally closed to vehicle traffic for years before the family arrived.

And it was named Anvil because these Mormons had no desire to carry any weight back because of how horrible the terrain was.

So it was just a recipe for disaster.

But nowhere on the map did it say any of this.

But the surface had deteriorated to the point where it was no longer a road in any meaningful sense.

It was a dry wash in some sections and a boulder field in other.

And throughout its length, it was the kind of surface that punished any vehicle that did not have the ground clearance and suspension to absorb what it was throwing at them.

And the minivan was already damaged from the attempt at Mengel Pass, and its tires, as we know, were the standard all-season highway tires that come on rental vehicles with no reinforcement against the sharp volcanic rock that lines the canyon floor.