Possible Clues:

• Away from the city, maybe
• Going to be published before spring
• A flight, maybe? Abroad, with spring?
• Around Utah approaching spring - that's the direction one needs to head towards to get away from city
• Succeed at the long jump away from home?
• Make a bigger leap away from home?
• Excel in jumping, perhaps, on first leg rather than second?
• Dismissed, then sure to be leaving
• Away from the city or leaving
• Not in and tied-up departing