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Show rrairie Trok Kxjvaitions is the name of this traveling school for boys that r stopped off in the Jloab area for a few- days. Tho school on wheds is in ila-fifth ila-fifth weok of an eipht-week expedition rairie Trek Expeditions Spending Time in Mottb actress Kathy Garvcr teen-age volimte-er :J:nsen. representative n Grand county at the .vh of Dimes Youn? :!t Leadership Confer-? Confer-? at Bngrham Youngr tirersity, Provo. Kathy National Tfen Chair-i Chair-i for the March of "is, a student at UC-'.. UC-'.. and star of the CBS vision series. "Family :':"iir." Jliss Jensen was 'i of 250 participants in : conference on birth -fts for young adults d "Operation Fit for V held on July 21-23. ? March of Dimes, i marks its 30th an- i ":rsarjr this year, spon-'A spon-'A the conference as a t of the continuing y-?aign to fight birth K'ts through nation-;e nation-;e programs of educa-i educa-i research and patient . Tlie Prairie Trek Expeditions Expedi-tions are spending a few .days in the Mono area this .week. The group of 30 boys and six leaders are in their fifth week of an eight week .expedition in the Four Corners Cor-ners states. , Headquarters for Prairie Trek Expeditions is at Thor-e.m. Thor-e.m. New exico a few miles east of Gallup, where their base camp is situated on the Continental Divide. Tlie organization is spon-ired spon-ired by the Cottonwood Ouleh Foundation, a nonprofit nonpro-fit corporation. Since 19?0 Prairie Trek Expeditions has been taking boys throughout he southwest as part of an out-of-door educational and raveling laboratory. Tlie boys, representing la states, are now enmppd at Warner Lake and are co!-Jecting co!-Jecting rocks and samples of smokv quartz from the high LnSaR They have plans to be in the area for three or four days and have hones of climbing 11.642 foot Haystack Hay-stack Mountain. This peak reaches high above timber-line timber-line to the southeast of Warner War-ner Lake. : The boys and their Ieadevs travel in three International Travelnlls. A two and one-hMf one-hMf ton canvas covered vehicle ve-hicle serves as the Chuck Wagon commisnry and provides pro-vides transportation for clothing, clo-thing, food, tents, kitchen gear and specimens collected collect-ed along the way. This group of the Prairie Trek Expeditions, under tha leadership of Dick Oslund, has been traveling since mid-June. mid-June. They roamed and camped throm.'h southwestern southwest-ern norfnins of New Mexico throughout the Four Corners. The ISO boys and six loaders camped at Warner War-ner Lake this week where they hunted hunt-ed for rocks and climbed a few peaks of the La Sals. and then went into Arizona where they visited Sonora Desert Museum and Snguaro National Monument at Tucson. Tuc-son. They I hen swung around ar-ound into New Mexico again ag-ain to While Sands. Santa Ft. Taos and crossed the border into Colorado. They took a float trip down the Arkansas River out Of Sal-ida Sal-ida on air mattresses and then continued on west to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. After going thru the DurangoSilverton area, the campers came on to Mo-ab. Mo-ab. Truck problems kept them here a few days longer than expected but the boys took advantage of the outdoor adventures ad-ventures that can he had in the canyon country. An underlying purpose pf the Prairie Trek Expeditions Expedi-tions is to provide rich educational ed-ucational experiences to qualified qual-ified boys. For the eight weeks of their long journey they study basic camping iskills, nature and environ (mental features of many different' areas, archaeology land rocks. They also collect col-lect specimens under the (guidance of college professors profes-sors and meet with staff .specialists for reports and discussions. It's actually a school on wheels and their laboratory is the wide open ispaces of the Four Corners. |
