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Show Trail Ride and Dinner are Fitting Opening of Lindon Days 2011 While not the first event kicking off Lindon Days, the annual trail ride and dinnerentertainment dinneren-tertainment held at the mouth of Dry Canyon, certainly personified per-sonified the city's logo of "a little bit of country". The ride, now in its twelfth year, takes about three hours, starting and ending at the trail-head trail-head to Dry Canyon. This popular trail connects the Great Western Trail with the Bonneville Bonnev-ille Shoreline, which is actively being established by Lindon and Pleasant Grove cities. It will eventually stretch from the Idaho border to Nephi, comprised com-prised of more than 280 miles of trail. The Great Western Trail system traverses 4,455 miles through Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and 1,600 miles in Utah . The early morning ride was enjoyed by 12 men, women and kids astride their horses and left the parking lot around 7:30 a.m. for the trip that took them into Provo Canyon along the Bonneville Shoreline overlooking over-looking the valley and back to Dry Canyon. In the evening a chuck wagon wag-on dinner, provided by Magle-by's, Magle-by's, was enjoyed by more than 60 residents. During dinner, din-ner, which was situated about 15 yards up the hill from the parking lot, the audience was treated to some great country cowboy music by two members mem-bers of the band Highway 40. John Mendenhall, a former Lindon resident, recited cowboy cow-boy poetry he began memorizing memoriz-ing as a child. His rendition of Waddie Mitchell's "Story with a Moral" was dedicated to a friend who quit eating so he would tell it. (Google it, just for fun) "Pert' Near Perkins" was also a favorite poem he performed. Those who supported sup-ported this event were well-paid well-paid for their efforts |