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Show and ponds had long since evaporated, evapo-rated, leaving but dry basins, nevertheless never-theless the autumn garb and mood of the mountain made up for these hisses niiii the hike was decidedly worth while. Throughout the course of the day a small parly of hikers explored ' Guide's peak, probably the first I time . for several years, and they I found that this prominent peak 'commands the grainiest view of the cirques and amphilbealers of Tinip-lanogos Tinip-lanogos to be found on the mountain. moun-tain. Guide's peak rises imnie-! imnie-! diately to the left of the Aspen drove camp and reaches its highest high-est at a point a thousand feet above the floor of the giant nmpi-t nmpi-t heater. It looks directly into the Stewart and giant amphitheaters and commands a magnificent panorama pano-rama of the Hidden cirque, and the American Fork amphitheaters. A trail could he built to this beautiful peak nt the cost of less than $500, and if this were built, the peak , would soon become one of the most frequently visited scenic features in the west. After scaling the heights of Timpanogos the student party returned re-turned to Aspen Grove for supper and a short bonfire program, and then made the Timpanogos loop and back to Provo. 65 STUDENTS MAKE AUTUMN HIKETO TIMP By E. L. KOHKKTS. Timpanogos scored another victory vic-tory Saturday when the grand old mountain lured 05 students of the Brigham Youug university to his gorgeously colored heights on the annual autumn leaf hike of that institution. in-stitution. His victory was all the more impressive because these students stu-dents were compelled to leave their warm beds nt 5 a. m. and ride in open trucks against an icy wind all the way from the university campus cam-pus to Aspen grove before teir climb began. Had the weather been at all balmy, the number of hikers participating in the outing would have been more than doubled. The mountain was exceptionally fine in his fall colors Saturday, and the t'oolhills and valleys lying about the base of Timpanogos were all ablaze with uninaiu reus, yenows. browns and vermillions. While the terraces over which numerous cascades cas-cades fell throughout the suminet-were suminet-were merely stained water-marked instead of alive with their leaping cataracts, and the highland lakes - M,M'ltlMMIMI'tl''';l!!H |