“I didn’t think that was real.” That’s the reply I kept hearing from both coworkers and readers after we wrote about backpacker Austin Dirks’s rescue from a quicksand pit in Arches National Park in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quicksand may seem like something from a cartoon, but it became a very real danger for an experienced hiker during a trek through ...

A hiker was rescued from quicksand last week in Arches National Park, reigniting long-dormant fears of a geologic phenomenon once featured prolifically in films, video games and nightmares. The big ...