OCR Text |
Show Five Hundred Jeepsfers Enjoy Monfi Safari Over the Past Weekend Moab's Fourth Annual Jeep Safari was held last weekend w.'th alxwt 50:j persons on hand for the day long trip. Although no official tabula-'t'Cn tabula-'t'Cn has been nride. it is es-ljnvj.tcd es-ljnvj.tcd that about 150 jeeps were on the three trails), included in-cluded in this number was quite a group of Moab residents. resi-dents. Counts made by BLM Safari 'leaders, Marvin Jensen. Dick Burch, Babe Foy, and Wayne Erickson indicate that 122 Jeeps covered the two trails on BLM land. The Gemini Gem-ini Twin Arch Trail was tne most popular as 9.3 four-wheel drive rigs were counted on (hat trip. The Pritchett Trail hnd less than one-third as many with only 29 jeeps. Popularity Pop-ularity of the Gemini Trail was probably due to it being the only new trail this year, stated officials. Littering or other damage to public lands was minimal on all of the trails, reported report-ed BLM officials. This was largely due to the availability of BLM's Johnny Horizon lil-fcrbags lil-fcrbags and the efforts of Chamber of Commerce Safari Sa-fari Committee Chairman, Harold Jacobs, the Safari leaders, and the BLM in making mak-ing Safari participants more conscious cf the litter problem. prob-lem. There were a few vehicles that had minor breakdown.1 during the trip, but no major t?roblems were encountered End the Grand County Jeer-Posse Jeer-Posse was on hand to give needed help. No serious accidents ac-cidents occurred on any of the trails. The Marching Man tour, which took visitors into Arches National Monument included about 35 vehicles. Park Service personnel were cn hand to guide participant; into the Klc-ndyke Bluff's area of the Monument. The tifp to the Moab Rim Trail was cancelled due to lack cf interest. Statistics compiled thus far show that 59 people attended the Safari who had never been in the Moab area be- y ' ; "' ': j i '. - - ' - , : ' . --. t ' I ' " - J ' I ' 'V- . '...'.'...i - ' I . ' : - j - i President of the Moab Chamber of Commerce, Jac-quie Jac-quie Gelo, presented a special award to Harold Jacobs Ja-cobs at the Tuesday meeting for his work as chairman chair-man of the annual Jsep Safari. The alarm clock presented to Mr. Jacobs was engraved to show the thanks of Chamber members. fore and that 15 or 16 Jeep clubs were represented. Skyline Sky-line Jeep Club from Salt Lake CRy boasted the 'most members mem-bers in attendance with Mile High - Jeep Club cf Denver following second. Most of-those of-those who had come for. the trip were planning to stay' overnight and of the nearly 530 people present, approximately approxi-mately 124 stayed in motels. Members of the Mile High Club are planning their animal an-imal ''get-together" for this area next year with about 150 Jeeps expected to take part during the two week stay. |