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Show Page 8 The OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Volume I, Issue XII September 1999 Volunteers Spend Weekend Working On The Great Western Trail By Shanna Francis In Weber County, the trail runs along Ogden’s East Bench, following Beus Canyon Trail to Mount Ogden. Then the trail drops into Snowbasin, and down the access road to the upper parking lot. Here it becomes part of the p a v e d Snowbasin road, or State Road 226, until it connects to Wheeler Creek trail. Wheeler Creek trail comes out onto State Road 39 at the top of O g d e n Spencer and Pam Packer with their children Jeff, ten and Trent seven. Canyon. The Centerville family are members of Back Country Horsemen. The trail, a g a i n , the Great Western Trails system. follows the main roadway across the Between twenty and thirty families spillway, around the Pineview came to lend their support. A new Reservoir on the Eden side until it bridge was built, overgrown brush was reaches the Windy Point trailhead. cut back and other repairs were made This trail meanders up the along the trail. August 21 was set aside, statewide, for volunteers to come together to work on different parts of the national trail–whether it was near the South Fork of the Provo River, up at the Idaho border, around Fish Lake, or down near Arizona. Last month volunteers, most of them members of Back Country Horsemen, met at the Skyline trailhead in North Fork to spend a weekend working on the trail, which is part of The Great Western Trail follows the Rocky Mountains, stretching across America from the Canadian border, down to the Mexican border. The Great Western U.S. Forest Service employees spend their weekend Trail isn’t a single unbroken doing volunteer work cutting back brush . dirt pathway winding through mountainside, up and over, until it mountains and valleys, but likened to comes out on top of the North Ogden a corridor, very wide in some places. Divide. Here it crosses the mountain In some areas, even more than one trail road before heading up towards the may exist to allow for a variety of uses, next ridgeline, nearing the summit of motorized and non-motorized. On Ben Lomond. It now begins to drop some trails ATVs or snowmobiles are down into North Fork Park. The trail allowed. On others, only hikers, and follows the paved roadways again horseback riders. In some instances, before linking up with the unpaved the trail will follow a paved city street road that leads to Avon, heading over or a backcountry road. It traverses to Cache Valley. lands managed by the Federal On June 26 of this year, The Great Government, five states, and the Western Trail was designated as one Navajo Indian Nation. of 15 additional trails as a National Millennium Trail. The designation was made by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the White House Millennium Council, and the Department of Transportation. The Millennium Trails initiative, “. . . is a part of the White House Millennium Council’s efforts to stimulate national and local activities to ‘honor the past and imagine the future.’ View looking down from the Skyline Trail. This public/private partnership is led by the Department of Transportation, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and a collaborative of other agencies and organizations. The purpose of the Millennium Trails is to spark the creation and enhancement of more than 2,000 trails as part of American’s legacy for the future.” The other 15 trails that were designated as National Millennium Trails are as follows: The Unicoi Turnpike, The Cascadia Marine Trail, The Juan Bautist de Anza National Historic Trail, The Freedom Trail, The Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail, The Underground Railroad, The Civil War Discovery Trail, The International Express, The Iditarod National Historic Trail, The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, The North Country National Scenic Trail, The Hatfield-McCoy Trail System, The East Coast Greenway, The Mississippi River Trail, and The American Discovery Trail. For more information about Millennium Trails, visit the web site www.millenniumtrails.org. For more information about The Great Western Trail, visit the web site gwt.org MAVERIK cont. from page 1 cashin’ policy must have been thought up in some corporate office . . . in a city! Recently Kent Stevenson from the corporate office was contacted in an effort to resolve some of the confusion. He stated that societal changes along the Wasatch Front, associated with check cashing fraud, have driven the change in Maverik’s policy as of August 1. He did emphasize that the store’s policy does have a clause that states that “local, well known” customers need not be asked for identification. If the clerk knows the customer who patronizes the store on a regular basis, there is no need to ask for ID. Mr. Stevenson related that Maverik stores have historically been, and want to continue to be, community players. After Mr. Stevenson spoke with the local manager in Eden, he felt the mix up occurred because of a whole group of new clerks that had recently been hired who were unfamiliar with the local clientele, so felt they needed to ask for ID. Never mind that one clerk admitted that she even had to get a driver’s license number from her dad to place on his check! The company will soon be placing check readers throughout their chain of stores to combat the losses they’ve been incurring due to a check fraud epidemic. Checks will soon be fed through an electronical devise that will process information from your checking account record and check writing history, looking for red flags that might indicate a problem with your credit. M a n y businesses now carry such devices. We have propane and natural gas conversion kits for your Generator Complete line of solar products Nonelectric pellet stoves Wood, coal, fuel oil boilers, fu r n a c e s a n d s t o v e s Cabin power centers Generators Gas,LP,D Solar water heating Radiant floor heating Propane refrigerators Instant hot water heaters Solar pool heating Wind generators Hydro generators Water filters In Hot Water Heat & Power Box 807, Eden Ut. 1-801-745-2009 ibrodn@uswest.net For now, if you don’t want to keep being asked for ID, go into the Maverik and introduce yourself to the new clerks–the average turn over rate for new clerks is every three to six months— chat up a storm, go in and hang out and have c o f f e e everyday with the other locals, or do something crazy that the clerks will remember you by–like dancing through the door on your way in and out. If you’re not willing to go to these extremes . . . go over to Huntsville for gas! |