Athletes claim the lawsuit removed the Utah single track, which is unclear

SALT LAGE CITY (AP) – A glowing one-lane strike found deep in the Utah desert was a mysterious lighthouse that immediately caught the attention of a world with a punitive epidemic over the holidays.

Revealed shortly before Thanksgiving, it drew hundreds of people to the distant, red-rock country to see and touch the other world mansions that sparked both science fiction movies and the state’s most famous land-art works.

But the newcomers also flattened the plants with their cars and left human waste in the absence of a bathroom. Now, according to two men known for extreme sports in the vast outlying landscapes of Utah, that kind of damage was what caused them to step in late at night and tear it apart.

Sylvan Christensen and Andy Lewis have great online follow-ups for posts about base jumping and slacklining like Skydiving, which is like walking on an outdoor tight track. In videos posted on Instagram and YouTube, they said they were part of a group that pushed down a hollow steel structure and carried it in a wheelchair.

Christensen told the media late Tuesday that it was not ready to visit the land and could not believe its federal managers would continue.

“We want to use this time to unite the people behind the mystery craze and the real issues here — we are losing our public lands — things like that will not help,” he wrote.

He said the group supports art and artists, but said it was an “ethical failure” to cut through the rock to form a monolith, and that the damage caused by “cyber terrorism” was worse.

A deep, smooth, elevated structure was found during a helicopter survey of Bicorn goats in the Martian-like landscape of Utah’s red-rock desert. (Nov.24)

The group’s action left frustrated people who had traveled long distances to see the glowing silver structure, only to see the site empty from a triangular sheet of metal over a hole in the ground.

But the deletion should not violate the law. San Juan County Sheriff Jason Dorkerson said Wednesday that they could not investigate a stolen property case because no one had come forward to claim the structure on their own. The original creator remains a mystery.

In an email to the Associated Press, Dorkerson said: “The monopoly on public property has been abandoned. The original installation is also under investigation as it was originally placed there without permission, he said.

A similar structure that appeared in Romania last week has since disappeared.