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Show w m rr ovo-s- r Hiker leaves gear and disappears Canyonlands mystery gives meaning to outing by PAUL BERRYIIILL Chronicle staff Over the Thanksgiving holiday several University students on a camping trip in Canyonlands stumbled across a backpack and Now 'k finally caught up with our plans it was time to leave and see if we couldn't plan people Iater that morning, over baron and eggs in the Westerner Cafe in Moab. we o caught up with the refugees. "Hey, guess We what?" they cried. found out about Bill Mon-ticell- Wilson." This eerie discovery led to further revelations which Chronicle staffer Paul Berry hill has pieced together to form "The Saga of 'Bill Wilson." After hearing the story. Neil's relatives in Monticello had called the kcal sheriff who dropped by the house, tie told them that Bill Wilson had been involved in a wildiness expedition a Wilson," "Despite extensive planning, last Wednesday night found a small group of us roasting weenies around a at backpacks that were ct:H Salt Lake City as far as we could tell. Yet maybe this was what we really wanted in the first place to leave plans, time schedules, and obligations behind. Funny it took so . and much planning here. us to organization get The next day, when the people bringing 'the packs had still not shown up. we drove over to Elephant Hill , , OF THE 1RTS and Christi had made it to Chesler Park when we finally caught up with them. What took an hour and 1 5 m inutes in daylight took Bob and I three and a half hours to stumble back through in the , WEDNESDAY'S EVENTS: 10am-3p- This maze of rocks in Canyonlands National Park was the setting for the "The Saga of Bfll Wilson." A practically empty backpack dark, without flashlights. . j During a luC In 'the wirjitls. Bob. Doug and I left to find Neil and Christi. who had stayed in Chesk'r Park. We had left them there the night lefore with the illusion that the rest of our group would hike right in. An hour later We ran into them on the trail coming out. n ,u DOUBLE FEATURE 1 Showing 10:30 12:50 3:10 5:30 7:50 10:00 snow Free admission Musical Entertainment: Jordan venture in Southern Utah. Photo by Bob Bauer. What was rain at KJephant llijjjhad luvn halfi-a-ffwt.o- f that had hkwn practically away their tent at ('hesler Park. Neil said he thought h had and wind pneumonia and they continued their trek. The three of us hiked on to check out the new river in Klephant Canyon. Just before we got to the creek led 1 noticed a blue pack on a ledge above a gully just off the trail. Since it was in a rather unusual place, we climbed up to it. The pack contained a small jacket, a coffeemate jar, and a pair of jockey briefs. Strewn about the pack in this rather rocky and precarious gully were a pair of Levis, a blue shirt, a pair of socks, and a pair of hiking l)Oots. all soaked with water from the storm. Kxpecting to find a body we looked up and down the gully but found only some collected our TINA RUSSELL EMPATHY AND POTENCY TO A SWIFT BOREDOM ONE. 11.-4- 0 6:4J 2:00 4:20 9:0 v 11:21 FOR THE MATURE ADULT, DO NOT ATTEND THESE MOTION PICTURES IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY TOTAL ADULT FRANKNESS HAO KICK AND SPARKED EXUBLRAM 2 Showing SUPERCHARGE A THAT ME Of SENSUAL TURNED ON K IN Al ,OOl GIVES XXX CONVEYS TREMENDOUS IN THE BEHIND THE TRIP BY A PARTICULARLY IS A GOOD '.wank FINISH GE0RGMA SPELYII! & TINA RUSSELL Mag icr show- - TOGETHER... WITH A IITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS! decided to drive to Monticello to recuperate from their drenching and the rest of us hiked a short way to spend the night under some rock overhangs. Then a group returning from Spanish Bottom informed us that the name SOOpm Babcock soaked general-$3- , students-50- U. 0 ISAAC STERN general-$5- , $6, $7, 8O0pm Kingsbury students-50- off c CROSS COUNTRY SKI DEPT. Fantastic Savings on Cross Count rv Ski Outfit ' J f 250 $o. n. y SKIL0M TOURING OUTFIT State SKILOM "HICKORY" TUR- SKI Reg. $48.00 BASS BOOT Reg. $36.00 ROTTEFELLA BINDINGS Reg . $8.95 ... Reg. $8.95 POLE MOUNTING J EDSBYN "NO WAX" OUTFIT "NO WAX" SKI BASS BOOT HEAD BINDING MOUNTING Reg. Total rocks on the spelled out joint trail about three miles from where we had found the $121.80 pack. The Canyonlands grapevine was alive with the mystery of Bill Wilson. "DAMES AT SEA" Theatre equipment and brushed the sand off. Yes. we'd have to take it all home and clean it up before we'd le ready 'for another stint in the wilds. "Bill" had been found in ': Chns Fair the name Bill Wilson sewn in the clothing. PuzzK d. w e left the scene, intending to inform the park ranger. We also told two groups we passed hiking along the trail about our discover'. Who was Bill Wilson and why had he left ail his clothes in that gully? We returned to camp where our findings also mystified the others in our group. Neil. Christi. and Rex River Uptown Band '' htf vas this Bil , Wilson 'who had left iill his clothes and wandered off into the wilds of canyonlands? Reflecting over the piles of equ ipment a nd pin nning t hat we had used to get us here. I wondered if mayle old Bill had discovered so mil h in g out there. Certainly he had less to worry about. Sunday morning we revealed the biros no ihe beads delivers' ARTS & CRAFTS SALE & DISPLAY and a complete set of clothes led several adUniversity students through an eerie faint footprints! Closer examination of mystery UNCENS0RED m Union Bc'.lroom SMASHING RATED AN Colorado. 1 felt let down. I had not wanted to know what had happened to Bill Wilson. Why couldn't they have left him alone? For those few days I was Bill Wilson and I too had left all behind. Now the shrinks in Colorado are trying to understand w hy he did it because they always need to find the "real" FESTIVAL had changed vim m pii.M. wandering around naked. He mental hospital in is now in a DECEMBER hands and arrived with some other members of our group. Neil and Christi. The keys to their carwere with them and, according to our original master plan, they were somewhere along the trail to Chesler Park traveling to meet us in Virginia Park. Bob and 1 left Hex, Doug. Joe and Jim in the late afternoon to bring the equipment we had at Squaw ,Flat to Elephant II HI while fwe raced alohg tl? Vail tdu catch up with the keys. Neil did . where we found the packs in ,.'a locked car. Apparently the Predictably, him with month before but had disappeared during the trip. He had been found nude about five miles from where we found the pack in reason. ( Jrabens. We found out more For me. Bill Wilson was information from the park never found. I have my own ranger at Arches National answers. I still see him out Park. there in the rocks, totally The ranger said that Bfll nude. Squawflat in Campground Canyonlands, minus two equipment not catch on. It seems that he had tried to end it all by jumping off a cliff but only succeeded in losing most of the skin on his ass. An aviator had spotted him another trip. complete set of clothes marked uith the name "Bill fire had given away most of his possessions. teUing people he wouldn't be needing them anymore. Apparently the that we were here and Reg. $5.00 Reg. Total now onl Ct095 $106.90 EIGERALFA OUTFIT EIGER BONNA TURA Reg. $63.00 Reg. $36.00 Reg. $8.95 Reg. $5.00 now only $75Q0 Reg. $65.00 ALFA BOOT Reg. $46 05 ROTTEFELLA BINDING Reg. . $8.85 TONKIN POLE MOUNTING Reg. Total 8133.U5 Reg. $7.95 Reg. $5.00 now only IT CtOO |