Show record believed let et in jeep trip 0 pink point what la Is believed to be ti record modern exploration ana mouna transportation was etab led here recently when a party eight men headed by albert bertson supervisor of the dixie lional forest made the ascent the table cliffs at the ex me southern end of the aguar i plateau by jeep the base jr F the expedition expedit on was established Esc escalante alanto divide and aid the trip that point was made by car d truck prom from there the ascent the cliffs was made by jeep ing the forest service horse ill III over which no motor driven hide hicle had ever before travelled places the grade was as high fifty per cent and it was ceasaro to literally lilt lift the P around switch backs in orr y to negotiate the sharp turns d steep grades the aquarius plateau Is the hest plateau in the united ates and visitors to bryce can a national park can see sea the dutiful pink point I 1 fifteen miles northeast ol of the park at the southern end of the plateau at an elevation of feet or about 1000 feet higher than bryce canyon him major 1 ajor powell in ills his geological and geographic survey ot of tile tho territories west of the mississippi shortly after the civil war established a triangulation coln at the end of odthe the table cliffs on oil what ilia hla preliminary work indicated was the salt lake meridian the monument with the bronze plate indicating the powell survey Is still in place on the cliff known locally its as the pink point other members of the expedition were allen alien cameron pan gultch J usher hearle commissioner iniss ioner of garfield con county n ty panguitch Pan gultch burnett A hendryx phoenix arizona if jennings allen alien county commissioner escalante reed need thompson ranger U S forest service Esc escalante alanto charles el poster foster geologist I 1 southwood exploration co denvor denver colorado and harry W oberne consulting geologist colorado springs colorado official forest service photographs were taken of the joey ascending the steep rocky grades at points ahers ascent seemed impossible A large share of the success of tho the expedition avas was due to tile the expert handling of the jeep by hendryx |