You can accomplish both of these basics by dressing in layers. Clothing layers can be mixed and matched to create the proper amount of insulation, ventilation, and weather protection. Clothing should be combined and adapted to meet the best and worst of weather conditions. The National Weather Service hotline in Salt Lake is 524-5133. AM radio signals travel the farthest, especially at night.
Lightning kills many hikers in Utah every year.
If you find yourself amid lightning, head to a low elevation and seek shelter in a tent, under a rock outcropping or in a large grove of trees. Avoid high locations and isolated trees. Flash floods are also a danger, especially during heavy rains after the soil is saturated from late spring run-off, and during the summer monsoon season, especially in August. Always camp above gullies and ravines. Even if it is not raining in your immediate area, rain at a higher elevation could cause a flash flood. .