Show I. mountain climber and family thrilled with pack trip into High Uintah areas Duchesne District Ranger Burt F. Rouse and his Archer W. spent a couple of days last week with the Hillary family in the Four Lakes Basin in the Granddaddy Lakes area of Northern Duchesne THIS RENOWNED New Zealand family packed in from the Mirror Lake guided by Ranger Larry Colton at The Duchesne rangers met them Saturday and while they and their party hiked and fished and with Ranger Rouse said Sir Edmund Hillary seemed to enjoy the fishing in the High Uintah Primitive Area He was pulling out Rainbow and Brown SIR his Lady and their three children came to Utah looking for and not fierce They said they found what they were seeking in the High The world famous and his family were packed Into this primitive Uintah range Sat morning and out again returning to Mirror They left immediately for another camping trip In the Humboldt Forest in SIR EDMUND Is on contract with the Department of Agriculture and will make a report on western U. S. campgrounds to the As a guest of the U. Forest he is looking over the of the as an advance scout for foreign visitors in the said John Flannery of the Forest Service's Ogden Colton of the Kamas Ranger Matt Forest Service chief of conservation D. and his wife and daughter accompanied the on the Utah pack The Hillary family includes Sir Edmund's Lady and their three and Two baby Pat and Mirror were also SIR EDMUND made it clear at the outset that he was in the state not to climb but merely to enjoy them as part of the wilderness his pleasure on finding rather than Ranger Rouse said the children seemed to be having the time of their lives in these that he saw little need for baby sitters as the children were so ini The entire family seemed to enjoy Hillary hiked a She told Ranger Rouse that on this she was not writing home to their but rather each day she sat down and wrote a sort of an account of that day's and mailed this to her family to read and keep for her THING that brought a lot of discomfort to the party was the mosquito a pest which seemed to swarm in the this time of the Ranger Rouse Ranger Rouse said he enjoyed the association he had with this royal and hoped the pack-in trip would encourage other families to pack in to visit the remote High |