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Show GLACIER WILL BE IN PERFECT ! CONDITION FOR ANNUAL HIKE TOTIMPANOGOS ML 17-18 I charge of transportation. He intimates inti-mates that he will range a schedule for trucks to operate between Provo and Aspen Grove to suit the convenience conven-ience of everybody if they will only communicate with him in order that he may know how many to prepare for. The glacier will he in tip top J tdmpo for the fourteenth annual !' Thnpanogos hike, according to Prof. ' Waller Cottam, a man who knows !j Thnpanogos as well as any mini in Utah, due to the fact that he has ! hiked over the wonder mountain in Rummer and in winter, in spring nnd in fall. "I haven't, been far up the mountain moun-tain this year." Trofessor Cottam wild, hut I can predict without fear of being called a false prophet that I he glacier is in first class condition. The great snows of last winter and the lute snows of this spring all of which re-blanketed Tiinpnnogos guarantee fast and easy sliding. ' "There is still a great deal of Know visible oil the trail. This is an indication that over in the Giant Cirque there are many splendid drifts. There will he little or no danger ou the glacier this year. All of the rocks will be well covered if the hikers will avoid holes made by rock that have recently rolled out ou top of the snow." Word has come from Eureka that B party of nearly a hundred will ' make the trip from that. city. Bishop I Finch, of the Eureka ward, nays that the theological rlass of his Sunday Sun-day school is going to attend in a body. They expect to come to Provo to join in the Hikers' Frolic on the night of the sixteenth and then to visit Tiinpnnogos cave on their wny to Aspen Grove Friday morning. The forest service has been asked to co-operate in making the campers comfortable. Mr. Shepherd, the supervisor, is expected in Provo any day now to talk over the situation with members of the committee from the Brighnm Young university. A small slide on the trail was reported last week, but the forest department said the trail would be repaired in time for the hike. The report that the glacier is in good condition will please many people who have elimed up the mountain mnny times and who find in the glacier slide one of the most thrilling experiences of the trip. A number of younger men and women make it a practice to recliinb the glacier several times for the fun of sliding down again. Last year skis and toboggans were taken up although very little use was made of either. The good old trousers have been found to be about the best i apparatus ap-paratus to use for this slide. A few people in order to save the color of their clothes have carried a square piece of oil cloth or leather to be used as a toboggan in the lightning slide. These things serve well, but most hikers prefer to carry nothing except a bit of lunch. Word has also been received that ! there is to be a large contingent I from Ogden this year. Hubert Wilk- inson, who was recently in the city, reported that he expected to come down with a large group and other communication from Ogden indicate that the attendance from that city i will be larger than it has ever been, j Many Salt Lake people have sig- nified their intention of making tile ; hike this year, although no or-! or-! ganized parties have been reported from there as yet. . , j Trof. Elmer Miller, of the Brig-; Brig-; ham Young university, will have Short dresses are disclosing more family skeletons. Columbia Record About as sane a thing as a man can do is to make a will. Then it can be contested on the ground that he was mentally incompetent. Detroit De-troit News. It isn't that marriage makes men meek, but that the meek ones are easily caught. Billingham Herald and Reveille. |