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Show -r . .' v- s,s-" t"-v , , . -.. , ' ,. V v.i -. '--. . . V ' . V ; W cir o ;v.;nt Hill in tho XooJlo, gives ;:y of resisUiuv to the best of four .yl drive vehicles. This is perhaps-: perhaps-: ii the more f.unous routes near Moab. Photo shows Dr. Paul Smith of Provo conquering tho hill in his double cab Dodge pickup. (T-I STAFF PHOTO) !o Shortage of Classroom Space or School Study in Depth Here By Dick Wilson --;rv's a lot of talk .: iis.roo.Ti space In ;r.:o."."s schools tcsiay I kro.c of at leas; ; schools whioh have p?x:.orri well under they held ; classes in the vast Tr'Jr.T.cs. of par'.;oi.pat-y- a cc-.xvrative '"sta-viocrh" '"sta-viocrh" prvram in Csr.yr.lar.ds flashed .rh the rr.ir.ds of two S principals daring - r?C5r.t teachers' con- ir. Salt Lake City, gathered mmen- - ir.-i beiore the con- ended the princi-: princi-: id myself had laid -ii 'plans to present school boards. :': last Thursday after- X'vib witnessed the 'al of representatives - the r.vo schiwls i 'c-ld combine with 1 mier.ts for a unique -tj- Lniepth' of the? .trij-ds. The 25 eager -rr.ers represented the Juricr Academy and ' Jslt Lake Junior Ac----v. both Seventh-toy ist parochial school --55. The host school : i? Moab Seventh-day "-jst elementary. Rangers Assist 'p. three parties mot--' or. to the Needles :. cf the Canyonlands :-f they were met by ",v ;s rangers who di--i then to a base 5 at Squaw Flat. -" first major Jearn-Kr-enence was unfor-' unfor-' but very effective. - A our ovn Moab 5Uers fell from a an broke his leg. Paul Smith of Pro-one Pro-one of the aduit it wasn't long till . ''.iT'-i boy had re- , aid and his firse ' 'rip which delivered " m quick fashion to 'Jniey in Moab. -ortiy before the ac-Kent ac-Kent Frost, tour from Monticello, ar-to ar-to introduce our -P to the Canyonlands. j fed made his first v into the Needles in '! r-Ti two feet, srpend-eight srpend-eight days hiking "y1 snow an, wintry r's- His first hike took him from the Dugout Haneh to the old cowboy cave uhioh is still used at Cave Springs. From there he hiked the horse trail over Klephant Hill. into Devil's l.ane. to Bobby's Hole and finally to the Dark Canyon Plateau. Ii was on the Dark Canyon Plateau that Frost had ha i r- rai t n g advent u res wl'h large coyotes -half wolves," as he put it. BLAZES A TRAIL Elephant Hill received a peck of" civilization when Uraerv Hunt of Mexican Hat bulldozed a track over ov-er it in 191S. And since that time. Elephant Hill has received no more such p-vks. It is still one of the most thrilling jeep trails available in the U. S. Everyone Ev-eryone who makes the trip has a story to tell like the party who recently made it in a Volkswagnn equipped with overizo tires and a Chevrolet engine. en-gine. This is so unusual that it makes hJTtory. The next man to try it in such would probably not complete com-plete the trip. Dick Busby, principal of Sait Lake Junior Academy, Acad-emy, followed Kent Frost's Toyota. His rig was an old army jeep, recently rebuilt re-built .which pulled a U-Haul U-Haul trailer full of yelling, yell-ing, giggling, excited students. stu-dents. A Bigger Unit Next over Elephant Ilili came Dr. Smith's four-wheel four-wheel d:"ive, four door, double cab Dodge pickup possibly the largest kind of four wiieel drive that should attempt it. The major ma-jor inconvenience of Dr. Smith's vehicle was the length. In some places on the trail to CheMer Park, his truck could have substituted sub-stituted for a pretzel or at least should have! P.eno Academy's Jeep Wagoneer seemed to have the least amount of trouble troub-le on the rocky trail. It was driven by Ted Dun-ston, Dun-ston, one of the instructors instruct-ors of the school. Sight After Sight Kent Frost pointed out to us feature after feature, some comical, some historical, his-torical, and a few out of -omeone else's imagina- !,. . .. r cw"9 I "3 u - . I ' 0WA- Canyonlanda ' tTCf',,,73 Nations! K- P x I .tion. It was in Devil's Lane that our schools really got down to business, scholas-tically scholas-tically speaking. Geology Lesson Here was a perfect lesson les-son in geology much more ffftvtive than pictures can show in a textbook. Frost halted the party and gathered ga-thered the pupils around him. His explanation of what caused Devil's Lane was vivid enough to be remembered for a long time to come. When a student stu-dent hears sornething, sees it, feels it, smells it and tastes it it is not easily eas-ily forgotten. So ask any .student in that "study-in-depth" tour of Devil's Lane what a graben is. He'll tell you that it's a geological feature formed form-ed by the slipping of a large amount of land so as to foi-m a depression. And in the case of Devil's Lane, it's a narrow, cliff-guarded cliff-guarded valley intcrru'pt-cd intcrru'pt-cd in the middle by Sob Hill (that's our preference for the name!) Just north of the S-curve S-curve which bisects Devil's Dev-il's Lane (Sob Hill), is a stopping place of archaeological archae-ological interest. At the west side of the road and in the hollow behind a fallen fal-len chunk of sandstone are a number of hand and foot prints placed there by t lie ancient Anazasi people the first known discoverers of the Needles. Need-les. This subject was covered cov-ered extensively in our .Canyonlands classroom,, and will be discussed more fully next week in our survey of Arjgel Arch. Park Within Park Chesler Park is a park within a park, as one pupil pu-pil put it. This scenic spot of peace and security was named after an early cowboy cow-boy and is rapidly gaining gain-ing fame. The grassy meadow mea-dow with an island of soft ice cream is completely surrounded by sharp pinnacles pin-nacles which give the Needles area its name. National park plans presently pres-ently include Chesler as a center of interpretation wifh access by paved highway. high-way. The students of all three schools voted unanimously unan-imously that Chesler bo allowed to retain its wilderness wil-derness character with nc further encroachment of civilization. It( was ex pressed that only those who have to sweat and "hang on are able to fully enjoy such scenes as this ' The Canyonlands "stu- Hy-in-depth" tour continued contin-ued through five days We mentioned only two oi three of the topics covered cov-ered on this tour but nex - week will take you wit! us to Angel Arch, anothe. fascinating corner of Mo ab country and the Can yonlands. |
