SALT LAKE CITY — Every fall, the show starts slowly. A hint of gold here. A streak of orange there.

But even in its earliest acts, it’s enough to make you pause and take it all in.

“Well, I mean, fall is just such a beautiful time of year,” said Katie Wagner, a horticulturist with Utah State University Extension.

It is so beautiful, in fact, that going to see the colors is a tradition for many Utahns.

“There are infamous canyons and places where people go and they call it leaf peeping,” said Wagner. “Yeah. So they go and they peep at the leaves.”

But this year, Wagner said those leaf peepers might not see quite as much.

“We probably are not looking at as vibrant of a fall color season as we’ve seen in some other past years,” she said. “And it’s because of our moisture levels. We had

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