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Show JCommunity Participants in this year's Moab Jeep Safari will have a real choice of routes to take. According to Izzy Nelson, Nel-son, Chamber vice president and member in overall charge 'of the Safari, three routes have been selected, and each will be under the leadership of a qualified "trail boss" during the Easter weekend Safari. The "Behind the Rocks" route, which was used exclusively ex-clusively last year, will be .used again this year. It in-'volves in-'volves leaving Moab south on Highway 160 to Blue Hill, then turning right onto a jeep road that winds through the "Rocks," eventually coming into the Colorado river canyon can-yon at Hunter Canyon. Main feature of this route is Prit-chett Prit-chett Arch, featured in last week's T-I. Another route has been selected in that general vicinity. vi-cinity. It will utilize Cane Springs Canyon, from the Colorado river to the Hole in the Rock museum on U.S. Highway 160, then back to Moab. The third route is probably probab-ly the easiest, but also the ''longest by far. It involves leaving Moab valley via the Sand,1 Flats road, turning north on the LaSal Mountain Loop, up Fisher Point to Polar Po-lar Mesa, then down through Fisher Valley and spectacular Onion Creek Canyon to Utah Route 128, the river road, which then brings jeepsters kback to Moab. After the initial mailing, it it apparent that already many ma-ny outsiders are planning on making the tour this year. Several hundred jeeploads of visitors are expected to take part this year in the activities activit-ies which will begin with a breakfast at Lions Park the ,day before Easter. This unique new annual event after its first try last year, shows promise of becoming be-coming as popular, if not more so, than the annual events on the Colorado river system. sjt Work on the revised History ' of Moab is well underway, and the manuscript should be ready for publication beginning begin-ning in June of this year, Moab historian, Faun Mc-Conkie Mc-Conkie Tanner told us this week in a letter. Mrs. Tanner, Tan-ner, whose first book on Moab history was published in 1937, has been at work for j some time on the revised edition, ed-ition, which will include many ma-ny events taking place since the war years. Copies of the 1937 edition are as scarce as hens' teeth today. Its limited printing in the days before World Wall, Wa-ll, did not last long. Along with many others in the area. we are looking forward to the new edition. sjt A lot of business is being transacted over coffee cups in local cafes these days, it appears. Reminds us of the early '50's, when the saying was: "If you don't hear a good rumor by 10 a.m., start one! |