COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — Just over a week before taking his children on a treacherous hike — from which one child is still hospitalized — a Utah father was involved in a lengthy and sometimes tense traffic stop.
On Oct. 11, Micah Smith took his three young children on a hike on the Broads Fork Trail in Big Cottonwood Canyon, right as a storm was coming in. They didn’t make it down on their own and were rescued the next day.
Smith was later charged with child abuse…