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Show f V : f fw EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE The spectacular a full weekend of activity in Moab. Hundreds of Arches National Monument made a dramatic setting residents and visitors attended, for annual Easter Sunrise Services, which capped Easter Cups Big Mmb Weekend By Dick Wilson The rush of Easter weekend visitors hit Moab last Friday. By early evening most of the campgrounds in Arches were filled and running over. The rangers found it necessary to advise some to find camping elsewhere and this they did, up and down the Colorado river. ri-ver. Lions Club Park was overflowing also with camping camp-ing units of every description. 90 persons were registered at the Needles. Much of the weekend trafifc was due to the Second Annual Jeep Safari, but hundreds of camping units not accompanied accompan-ied by a four wheel drive vehicle ve-hicle were in the Moab area. Speaking specifically of the Jeep Safari, there was a total of 133 vehicles following Moab leaders over the rough trails of the area. Distribution of vehicles over the three routes was as follows: 46 vehicles followed Norman Cleveringa through Cane Springs Canyon with Jack Ewing bringing up the rear to insure the safety of the participating visitors. 58 four wheel drive rigs accompanied ac-companied Izzy Nelson, witt Homer Manson sweeping, into in-to the rugged Land Behind the Rocks. A brave lot of 29 bobtail rigs challenged the extremely tortuous Moab Rim Trail under the leadershpi of L. B. (Bun) Titus with Edward Ed-ward (Babe) Foy sweeping behind. Of the leaders, all were members of the Grand county Jeep Posse, except Nelson. Many of the visitors finished their trips early in the afternoon Saturday and tried other routes as well. No Serious Troubles Nothing serious happened to either vehicle or participant partici-pant on the actual trip. Tha only mishap was one. broken brakeline which was quickly taken care of. An accident did ocur later Saturday afternoon when one group went back to the Moab Rim Trail. Mrs. Jenny Faulkner Faulk-ner fell while walking, shat-. tering her ankle quite seriously serious-ly and requiring medical attention at-tention at the Allen Memorial hospital and she was later taken on to a Salt Lake City hospital. Mrs. Faulkner was with LaPreal Osborne, mother moth-er of Mrs. Clifford Aldridge, of Moab. On a whole the visitors en-, joyed the three routes chosen by the Moab Chamber o Commerce. Only one complaint com-plaint was heard about the Behind the Rocks trail in that it was too rough. The Cane Creek route was in excellent shape with no quicksand encountered. en-countered. This trip has been known to be dangerous in places with old timers warning warn-ing of deep quicksand pockets lurking there. An Exciting Trip The most exciting adventure adven-ture probably took place on the Moab Rim Trail which was the scene for proving a few things. It was formerly thought by some that only bobtail jeeps, those with the short wheelbase, . would be able to make it. But one local driver of a Wagoneer, equipped equip-ped with automatic transmission transmis-sion and power steering, made it. In one place a small mistake mis-take in calculating the slope resulted in a dent in the side, and another dent in the exhaust ex-haust pipe. It's only when one has made it over the trail to the almost-1000 foot escarpment escarp-ment southwest of town that the nerve and skill required for the trip can be appreciated. appreciat-ed. A number of original participants par-ticipants signed up for the Rim tour "chickened out," and this is quite understandable. understand-able. The trail is barely visible as it ascends a sharply-inclined one-mile slab of the Kayenta formation, which is " A f - v. - ' ; k ' .-: - - - v- " - ,. r .-.., .v.n , 7. - .. " vJ'" ''WV, . f -:. LIONS RIVER PARK Campers of every description which filled Lions River Park 'to overflowing Friday night were joinied by over a hundred jeepsters Saturday morning for the big Safari Breakfast. . . characterized by numerous formidable ledges. Special Guest Special guest of the Moab Jeep Safari was John David Rose, new director of the Utah Travel Council with headquarters at the capitol. Rose flew in Friday night and was hosted by Everett and Betty Schumaker of Moab. He later attended open house at the new Trail Town. The University of Utah sent a request to the Moab Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce to obtain pertinent information regarding regard-ing the type of person and occupations oc-cupations represented at the Safari. According to Harold Jacobs there were more mechanics mech-anics tha nany other occupation occupa-tion but represented at Saturday's Satur-day's event were doctors, lawyers, law-yers, truck drivers, dentists, chemists, store operators, service ser-vice station operators and many others. A Big Breakfast Breakfast was attended by some 465 persons at the Lions Club Park. Grand county Commissioner Mars Pope was in charge of providing the free breakfast to the Safari participants with Mayor Win-ford Win-ford Bunce, Dan Winbourn, Tom Stocks, Ray Gautier and Fred Beyeler acting as chefs. Eight local girl scouts helped to serve the breakfast. Several jeep clubs from around ar-ound the western states were represented at Saturday's event. ev-ent. 12 members of the Four Corners Jeep Club were here and the Skyline Jeep Club of Salt Lake City was well represented. rep-resented. The line-up on Moab streets began at 8:30 in three different directions. Jeeps 2-abreast 2-abreast lined up on Main street heading south for the Behind the Rocks trip. Facing north on Main street and also 2-abreast were participating jeeps for the Cane Creek route. In single file on Center street were the brave ones to go to the Moab Rim. Registration at the Moab Jeep Safari included persons from Grand Junction, Glen-wood Glen-wood Springs, Montrose, Bedrock, Bed-rock, Salida, Cortez, Delta, and Boulder, Colorado; Utah areas represented w:ere Salt Lake City, Orem, Bountiful, Tooele, and Green River. Other visitors were from San Diego, Calif.; Sun Valley, Idaho; Atlanta, Georgia; and South Carolina. |