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Show Guest Editorial Look for the New Feature By F. A. Barnes Last August 29, a picture-story appeared in these pages describing and illustrating the six two-day trails of Moab's new Labor Day Four Wheeler Campout. That picture-story completed my fourth year of preparing travel articles for the Moab Times-Independent. Following that fourth anniversary feature, several other travel articles of mine appeared In the T-I until our usual winter recess following the year-end holiday season. During this publication break, Sam Taylor and I devised a new approach to printing my travel articles that we think will pleaseeveryone.Inthepast, the stories have appeared about once a week throughout the long canyonlands travel season. Those who bought or subscribed subscrib-ed to the paper who wanted to try some of the trails, or visit some of the places described, had to clip the articles from the newspaper. Canyonlands visitors who came to Moab did not have easy access to any but the travel article in the current edition of the T-I. Our new approach will make things easier for those who want to collect my travel stories, and will also keep them available to canyonlands visitors In a convenient conven-ient form. Further, our new approach will permit several Improvements In the way the stories are'pre-sented. are'pre-sented. We plan to use some duotone, that is, color In addition to black. Added space will allow for more pictures pic-tures and maps. The form of printing will make saving and using the articles as travel guides more convenient. This new approach will begin with next week's edition of The Times-Independent. Watch for it with your subscription, sub-scription, or pick up a copy at a local newsstand. Here Is what you will find In this first and subsequent editions: 1. There will be a separately printed four-page travel supplement insert In the T-I called "Canyon Country Trails & Highlights" which will contain four of the kind of articles that have in the past appeared weekly in the T-I during the travel season. 2. The travel supplement will be folded into quarters, quar-ters, making a convenient booklet about 7-12 by 11 Inches In size, with a duotone cover photograph. It will be priced at 50, but will be gratis to T-I subscribers sub-scribers and purchasers as each-new edition Is published, pub-lished, about one per month from April through October of each year. Following this Initial circulation In the T-I, Canyon Country Trails & Highlights will remain available for sale at various Moab news stands, generally where other Canvon Country publications are stocked. 3. Each new four-article travel booklet will contain two or three completely new stories, plus one reprint of a good article that has appeared in past T-I editions, but even the reprinted stories will be accompanied by new photographs, and half the pages of each edition of Canyon Country Trails & Highlights will be brightened with duotone photographs and other uses of color. 4. The various editions of Canyon Country Trails & Highlights will not be dated, but will be a numbered series. As they are published on a schedule of about eight per year, they will remain In print and available both on Moab newsstands and,' as a service to out-of-state Canyon Country fans, by mall. 5. Special editions of Canyon Country Trails & Highlights may be published during the off-season time of the year, between October and April. These may also appear as travel supplements In The Times-Independent, or may be circulated separately, but in either event will be available on Moab newsstands and by mall. So there you have It the new approach to presenting pre-senting my travel features to T-I readers and other canyonlands residents and visitors. In addition to the new Canyon Country Trails & Highlights series, however, the T-I will also continue to print other special travel stories and photo-spreads by local writers and photographers, photo-graphers, on a weekly basis. Further, In addition to the pictorial travel guide, "Canyon Country, Family Car Touring," now in print, additional Canyon Country guides are scheduled. One now in work will cover the basics of backcountry exploring ex-ploring in the fantastic land that surrounds Moab on all sides. This 48-page companion to the one on "Family Car Touring" will appear later this year. Thus, through the combined efforts of Sam Taylor and his T-I staff, myself and the tiny Canyon Country staff and the growing number of other Moab freelance contributors, the charm and beauty and adventure of canyonlands country will be presented better than ever to those who have already learned to love this incomparable incom-parable land, and to those who discover it In the future. We hope that our readers enjoy what we produce as much as we enjoy producing It. |