Canyons busy as crowds take advantage of warm fall weather before it is gone

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Salt Lake City's trails were busy Sunday as temperatures exceeded 70 degrees.

Residents feared it was the last warm fall weekend before forecasted cold weather.

SALT LAKE CITY — With big changes in the forecast expected Monday when temperatures were predicted to drop to 10 to 20 degrees below normal, trails were busy Sunday for what some feared might be the last great fall weather weekend of the season.

Temperatures in the Salt Lake Valley raced past 70 degrees Sunday afternoon, and conditions at higher elevations were sunny and mild, leading to packed parking lots and numerous hikers and fall weather picture-takers in areas like the Donut Falls Trail.

"We were talking about how almost all of the leaves are gone on most of the trees and everything and how the snow's goin