Show three weeks af among the baldier do J ORlI animas tIES editor editors note this ie in tho the first rut of three articles artl cice tho the second secand will appear next week just who was responsible for thu the idea originally I 1 cant recall it might have been jorry jerry murray or joho john Mul villo or bill dill woolf or judge mcconnell Mc Connoll all exponents of tho the great outdoors and eloquent on the subject of at tho the high peaks of the UInta hs out but lawrence Law renco allan I 1 blamo blame most for what happened lies tho the chap who put it over ho be and his hits able lieutenants henry charley DeMol demoisy Do Moley sy wits Al murray urray bry dry String liam and walter barnea barnes aided and abetted by the remainder of the membership of tho the vernal G GS n club and when that gang strat theres something then along came dill bill woolf and played a lone hand except for ranger bloda and applied the finishing touches but I 1 suffer alone som soini a of them buffered suffered with me but most of thorn them because they A three weeks pack trip through a country notoriously wild and ani rough and little explored by a gang not accustomed to anything rougher than cushions 1 is going to causo cause somo some physical discomfort to tho the gang and the thought of missing such a jaunt by those who glory in a vacation la in tho the open la Is not without borne some mental distress aw you dont know what a real vacation lei jai was allans delicate way of at conveying convey lne tho the impression that there was a void in my think tank when I 1 divulged my vacation hopes zion and bryco bryce and grand canyon aro are all right in their way ho admitted grudgingly by way of consolation but why pick the hottest and driest region north of tho the illo orando grande for a summer vacation vaca when you can go up into tho the pino covered snow tipped mountains right at your own side aide door where there are tumbling streams and crystal clear cloar lakes and cool breezes and fishing and bunting hunting and flowers floors and scenery and everything that goos to make minke up a real vacation slip over here about the birts of august after the flies and mosquitoes om havo have gone to seed and the summer storms are or and well organize a nico nice little heman he man party and explore the of the Uin tabs be a real vacation I 1 we would just do it well what would you do it a man always believed boll ovod your friend told you sudden liko that yoli you were crazy you just up and him lu III tho especially it if ho lin wae wag pretty husky and with tho the chance that ho lie might bo be more than half halt right anyway tho the proposition bounded sounded reasonable it was some party bo ho organized gung stand up arid add bo be introduced folks wobble paws with lawrence allan dept of tho the vornal vernal qun gun club sells automobiles in spare tinie sometimes runs a coal mine or dabble dabbles in oil yop yap beau drum mcl niel never had anything on him for glad rags but hob has not such a dudo as ho he looks ono one of tb the whitest sportsmen you over ever met onor walter barnes mayor of vernal dionest to goodness tired buni business neds man also sells automo biles 1 and repairs them and sometimes faxes henry hoy hey heinle cut out road building and fishing and make your bow henry secretary of tho the vornal vernal gun club 1 otherwise pill roller and prescription dispenser doc francke never mind your coat doc who furnishes part of the prescriptions for henry to decipher sure hes lies tall enough and slim allm enough for a first baseman bas omun but hod hed athor prowl around among the rocks and dig into caves for skeletons and other cliff dweller rolles charles demolay DoMol sy jr supervisor of tho the ashley national forest hardly big enough for a movie ranger but just right for ft a northwest mounty uniform and all lots quicker in action than words and as fit as the fittest heros heres your roy stalwart type ranger no hoa lies not a ranger not now wilson murray Al urray county clerk of uintah county outside of at school and college and open season for politic hon lies been riding the range since he lie could straddle a bronc brone little soft now though what poll ties tics does and this bunch of at whalebone wha lobono and hickory bryant String harn knows more about sheep than luthor luther burbank does about spuds discarded baby haby drasso to tend his own flocks went to college to learn football and to figure income tax the brand new stetson moans bo hes on a vacation sorry about the duko duke of ireland shnte john sJohn erstwhile hudon or ilay and railroad build 1 or of the canadian northwest North but now chief engineer for the proposed railroad into the basin hed be hore hare if it trotsy lost hor bar head coming down a dugway up the du chesno and jumped on off a cliff the hurricane deck of a pack train Is no place face to burne a busted flipper well heres lie the dude dudel I 1 ale mot oh every vacation fa cation party ought to have at least one tender foot ill be aho ho dude duclo its how many little things can turn up at the last to bust into a vacation party after tho duko duke had boon been counted out allan got a hurry burry up cull call to come to salt lake to receive a shipment of automobiles Millo cams partner was wax expecting something or other to turn up and the drug business buel nose juet just bo be abandoned docs does patients were a little insistent Insie tont and force wag was on a vacation but doc and the mayor wae was game enough to sneak neak off the first day and go as far aa an the old bun bus could travel with safety yop top all their teare tears were salty no popper or onions needed nee didd except for a few points jn in the foothills tho the uintah mountains strip not yet accessible to motor cars and very few more places aro are areces to any kind of ot n wheeled vehicle hicle its a caso case of traveling on sonio some four legged animal or your own hoofs and its a long way and lots of uphill work rut but the boy swore roy il hosts and looking out for the comfort of the tenderfoot monitor of the party that was th tho 3 reason they thoy elected to go out by way of dry fork a branch of the ashley about the first brat fifteen miles could be covered by automobile demolay murray and started early in the morning tor for dry fork with the saddle horses and tho the and the pack animals an finals doc the mayor and I 1 were more leisurely we took our time at breakfast whittled up a few few packing cases and then started in pursuit in the mayors majors pet pot car no its his town own any out through maeser wo we whirled with due observance of speed laws of course and then it was a mental battle as to whether wo we would or stop at every irrigation ditch and inviting pool in the creek and try some of our new tiles flies we stop but the real reason we dian didn I 1 was the sandy road arald it if wo we stopped we start and then doc saw a holo hole in the canyon cliff a couple of hundred feet or so above the creek and launched into a dissertation on indians and c cliff liff dwellers and the thet like archeo logy Is his hobby bobby his ilia study at homo home looks like a museum archeological mine in all these canyons of the ashley drainage ho boldus tol dus the cliffs are scarred by many caves eaves and in almost every cave I 1 have examined there are numerous evidences of former habitation few contain walls of buildings but there aro are corn and beans pottery and other aboriginal household utensils ceremonial trinkets and occasionally a skeleton right up yonder and he pointed to a niche in the canyon wall 1 I found a complete skeleton ak oleton which I 1 am studying in the hope of determining the period of habitation bable atlon the skeletons aro are smaller than those of the indians with which we are familiar there seems to havo have been but little archeological research done in this particular region many of the ledges are literally covered with picture writings some of at them probably are of at comparatively recent origin possibly made by early utes or contemporary tribes but there Is one that seems to be out of the ordinary ill show you some if you dont mind a little climbing over a few rocks recently I 1 showed a picture of one of these ledges to an old indian territory scout but did not divulge the the photograph books looks like some big man of at the tribe probably the chief had found a grass covered and well watered valley he said reached by a rough and crooked trail and in or near the valley or park are many varieties of wild game gamo deer elk and mountain sheep maybe be he was right I 1 dont know how he be did it but you can try your hand band the pictograph doc designated as out of the ordinary did seem a bit unusual it was situated on a ledge thirty or forty feet from the base and in the ordinary sense sanse of the word inaccessible we decided it be reached in safety without ladders and ropes rodes it consisted of about a dozen figures evidently male niale some of which were chipped in relief from the nearest point from which wo we could view them they appeared to differ considerably from the ordinary indian pictograph of at I 1 this region the figures seemed to resemble egyptian types about as much as indian attempts to photograph them did not result satisfactorily be cause of distance the shadows and the dark red sandstone background because of archeological activities we did not reach dry pork fork until af DeMol demoisy sy murray and StrIng harn had bad the packs strung out and lunch waiting that was the end of the trail for the autom automobile consequently for doc and the mayor the wagon road continued on terminating about thirteen miles up in the mountains at John mill which contributes its share toward the lumber needs of ashley valley ask uncles boys when you aro are figuring on a pack trip vacation or otherwise call in one ono of your uncle samuels forest ranger as an adviser those fellows can get got more in loss less space and still be better prepared for comfort than any set of men I 1 know two pack animals with scarcely more than medium loads were enough for the four of us true we have to carry horse feed ati ema ld our meat was dependent somewhat conour ability as fishermen hormen fla and to talk an occasional sheep camp out of at a leg leir of mutton but we had two tents fishing tackle photographic equipment and supplies cool weather bedding for q four camp utensils and provisions tor for about tea ton day days twelve hundred feet in elov elevation atlon wo we had gained from train vernal to dry fork there still remained a climb of foot feet to roach reach our objective for tho the night tho the first arst and last day days out are the least interesting oc at a vacation in tho the because they are occupied for tho the most part in traversing trave the treeless brush cov coy ored foothills foot hills A four few miles up tho the wagon trail trait from dry pork fork wae was a black and whito poet post it marked the southern boundary of tho the ashley national forest AP most immediately there was IL perceptible cep tible change in ho ilia landscape first a fow few clumps of green rising aboto tho the pray gray of tho the sage marked growth growths of quaking nap and then almost without warning thoro there burat burst into view yiew a aea sea of evergreen wit iob lobs of baby lodgepole lodge pola pine vine which stood out vividly against tho the grayish drab of tho the first of the baldree marah marsh peak visibly from ashley valley which rears its symmetrical crown feet got above the level of the ocean right through here was about tho the last devastating fire in what ie in now tho the ashloc forest explained do malay aa as wo we rode among the baby trees whose tope tops wore scarcely ecar coly above our heads and that WAS several years before it became a national forest there has been no really do de firo in tho the sinco since tho the forest service assumed control and what do you find has boon been responsible for most of the bros I 1 inquired indians chiefly occasion aly a careless camper or berder before the days of tho the national forest tho the indians indiana came up into the mountains a great deal during the dry season of tho the we have not learned what whether tier they were careless car olesa or had a definite object in setting fire to the country they dont come so much any more not that we try to keep them away but because wo we watch them so closely and enforce observance of the forest service bra roles rules the new growth of at lodgepole formed an almost impenetrable thicket except for the roadway that has ban been chopped out by the freighters the old fire line was definitely marked immediately beyond tho the timber was much larger chiefly lodgepole with a liberal mingling of spruce and the trees were much farther apart hero here and there were a few yellow pines vines and in tho the twilight somo some firs bra were distinguishable in tho the vicinity of johnsona mill coata coats and sweaters discarded in tho the heat of the afternoon were hurriedly donned whan when the sun digap feared behind tho the western peaks even then the chill of tho the high hig h albl tude was begin beginning to add materially to the sum total of 0 our discomforts comforts dis when about a milo mile beyond tho the mill tho the twinkle of a light in tho the clearing conveyed the welcome information that the days journey was near to an end welcome to red cloud P bawled ranger harry van tassell as ho he and his assistant lien ron hall a summer fire guard tumbled from the cabin doorway throw your packs over the fence and turn the horses into the corral wont need to unpack anything but beds it stir be cold tonight and better a sleep leep in the house sup be ready in a few minutes the boys bad had telephoned from vernal that we were on the way and van tassel and hall had cut across country from trout creek trout creek la Is the headquarters for the district and red cloud is an emergency station which sees little use except during grazing season gingerly I 1 dragged my leg over the saddle and slipped to the ground stiff logged I 1 landed and a million needles more or lees less jabbed through the soles of at my feet and halfway half way to my knees tho the knee hinge that ought to be just simply was not I 1 tried it bent ever so slightly and sat down on the gravel path bed held hold much greater attraction than grub that night |