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Show i yZA..J' latin. . .jA?.'. lardiest of all participants , Sahrday's Jeep Safari, re these who drove their rough country vehicles up the precipitous trail to the Moab Rim overlooks, behind trail boss Rodney Phillips. Here jeepers pause to view the community nestled in J Moab's most successful feep Safari to date took lace Saturday with clear kies and balmy weather co-perating. co-perating. An estimated 540 persons oured the trails around Mo-lb Mo-lb in 151 vehicles. There at least ten . more ve-licles ve-licles which oijned various "Traips later. 'Leading the jeep' enthus-asts enthus-asts to Pritchett Arch and he Land Behind the Rocks fas Dick Brunch of thS Mo-J Mo-J BLM office. Brunch said he counted 68 rough country rigs durng the lunch stop. This was the most popular trip offered this year as it was the past two years. Only On-ly one vehicle was laid up on his' trip. It belonged to David Bailey of Moab whose Scout receved a broken axle three miles east - of Lone Rock. The trails within the new boundaries of Arches National Nation-al Monument were jeepeitl with Naturalist Charles Parkinson Par-kinson leading. An estimat ed 55 vehicles went on this route but in one place Dixie Barker of KURA counted more than 60. 28 vehicles attempted the Moab Rim route under the leadership of Rodney Phillips. Phil-lips. Phillips said the round trip to the rim and back took six and one-half hours. Two vewpoints of the valley were visited as was the Old Indian Fort. In addition . to the thrills given to the visitors by the scenery around Moab were f..J ? v. " ' . '-sf'-f JJtfariftMs & H- $ it I 1 ' m 3fc Mir i ii A thrilling serving of ice cream was drop- Ped by Canyonlands Aviation's Dick Smith to participants in Moab's annual Jeep Safari Sa-fari held last Saturday. 51 four wheel drive units line up on Moab City streets Sat-, Sat-, uraay morning prior to taking off on one of hree popular the valley hundreds of feet below them. The trip to ths Moab Rim took a little over thrills of a different kind coming at about noon time. When the four wheel enthusiasts enthu-siasts were calmly eating their lunch in the vicinity of Tower Arch they were bombed bom-bed from the air with ice cream treats for everyone. Canyonlands Aviation, form erly Hub-Air, in cooperation with Meadow Gold, made it possible for the Safari guesls to have their desert dessert served cold. Spectacular flying on the part, of Pilot Dick Smith was reported to have given the visitors something to talk about all the way home. Rodney Phillips, leader of the rim route safari, said that not only were the people amazed at the beauty, they were guided to, but "they, also al-so couldn't believe citizens would drop ice cream out of the sky to give a special enjoyment." en-joyment." Speaking of Smith's flying, Phillips said that his group " ' ' m I ' I ' , ' ' v J j I I c ; - :.!!-' r. , t l ' fc " ; I .. .. ! - " ... lM -"7, fi'r fe: -ZlSPf-' .r v routes in the annual Jeep Safari held here this week. I.T-I Photos by Randy Sackcrson and Dick Wilson) six hours, and gave drivers and rigs a real workout. got a good show when the plane rose from out of the abyss over which they were looking, flew within 15 feet of the rocks, dropped the ice cream, then narrowly missed miss-ed canyon walls as it slipped slipp-ed between two fins. Bombardier Bom-bardier Jack Shilaikis cf Moab flew with Dick Smith to serve the ice cream. The third group which was touring tour-ing the Behind the Rocks region missed out on the ice cream treats as they were still in motion when the plane was going over. Chairman Harold Jacobs stated that this year's Jeep Safari was a good . success and "that it looks like it will continue getting popularity popul-arity in the years to come." One four-wheel enthusiast from Farmington, New Mexico Mex-ico suggested that we provide pro-vide a group of Indians on the warpath to surround each caravan of jeeps by surprise. |