Itâs common after an accident for a person to describe his vehicle as having been âtotaled,â but he may not know exactly what that means. In order for a vehicle to be considered a total loss, the insurance company must inspect it and determine that the cost of repairs exceeds the value of the vehicle.
The Escalante near Escalante, Utah. The Escalante River is a tributary of the Colorado River. It is formed by the confluence of Upper Valley and Birch Creeks near the town of Escalante in south-central Utah, and from there flows southeast for approximately 90 miles (140 km) before joining Lake Powell.
The Dominguez-Escalante expedition was the first on it, traveling from Utah Lake to present-day Scipio. Jedediah Smith traveled most of it in 1826 and 1827, and other trappers, including Ewing Young, Kit Carson, and Peter Skene Ogden, followed. John C. Fr?nt mapped the country up to Utah Lake in 1844, and in 1848 Miles Goodyear took a pack train over the entire Salt Lake-Los Angeles route.