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Show Summer School Outdoor Program Being Offered Summer school "Outdoor" program, will be offered through the Grand County School District in two sessions this summer. June 14 to July 2 will emcompass the first session and the second will occur from July 6 to July 23. "Outdoor" is open to both boys and girls who will be in the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh or twelfth grades during the 1976-77 school year. Student will be able to earn a half credit in science, social studies, math or communicative communica-tive skills during each session. Each course will involve classroom work, bus trips, hiking and camp-outs of several days and nights. Highlights of the June session will be various areas of the Arches, a fossil trip to Shaffer Dome, visiting with Old Timers, Gold Bar Arch area, the , railroad tunnel, Warner Cground on the La Sal f intains, Devils Canyon Campground, Bland-ing Bland-ing Museum and Mesa Verde. The July course will entail a backpack up Negro Bill Canyon, Can-yon, another pack trip in the Pack Creek area, Steinaker State Park at Vernal, Dinosaur National Monument and Pioneer Pio-neer Museum, Flaming Gorge Dam, the Uintah Mountains and several of the lakes. The School District stressed the physical requirements of the backpacking summer program. pro-gram. The sessions will involve up to 10 miles of backpacking and hiking a day, at altitudes of up to 1 1 ,000 feet in elevation. It is necessary that the students be in good physical condition to enjoy and succeed in the program. Instructors for "Outdoor" are Ron Olsen, Ken Yama and Pam Yama. Fee for each session is $20. Interested students may pick up registration registra-tion forms from the middle school or high school offices. Each session will be limited to 20 students. " ' |