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Show Timpanogos has always dominated Utah Valley small cave located about two miles up By PAT CHRISTIAN The Daily Herald arti- American Fork Canyon, finding fiber. before the facts of stone, bone, wood and Before statehood, The stone arrows, points, spear Mt. its cliffs, Indians hiked scrapers and knives displayed fine Timpanogos dominated Utah Valley workmanship. And researchers were mother. as if she was a see-a- ll She was there, w hen the huge Lake able to establish the occupancy as It was Bonneville covered Utah Valley, immediately the that established also occupant had lapped against Timpanogos' foothills. stock that Utes been of Shoshone the The 11,750-foo- t guardian had g been a fountain fot-- the had descended from. Among the other finds in the cave valley below, giving birth to awls, flakers, chisels, gaming were, American Fork River, Grove Creek, and she feeds the Provo River pieces, beads and other ornaments made of bone. There were also ropes through North Fork. and cords made of animal and vegIt is appropriate that she herself was born of the water. Ocean fossils etable matter and a piece of a decorated pot were found. found on her record she had her oriOf the many bones unearthed on an floor ocean long ago. gins The imaginative can see a sleeping some of particular interest, because Indian maid along her summit ridge. none where common to the area in 1938. They included bones of a A modern "Indian" Romeo and Juliet legend speaks of the maid as Utahna prairie dog whose range is to the who was in love with Red Eagle, north and east: bones of a trio of their death in the cliffs and their heart bears of three distinct types; and being fused as the stone heart found bones from a mountain sheep. Within the boundaries of today in Timpanogos Cave. But while Indians did walk the Timpanogos Cave National Monument mountain, this legend was authored by is found a primitive painting. A reddish substance was used to Eugene L. Roberts in the early 1920s and told to hundreds of BYU students form a human-lik- e image nearly ten and faculty who used to participate in inches high and six inches wide. The the historic Timp Hikes that were cond head is with large ears ducted between 1912 and 1970. that resemble those of a mule deer. Indians walked the majestic Found nearby were small corn mountain even before Columbus. cobs. In 1938, researchers excavated a If Timpanogos could give life, she life-givin- "V'-shape- could take it away. There have been numerous hikers killed in falls and winter avalanches. Modern man has also impaled himself on her in his flying machines. that Much wreckage of a B-crashed near the eastern summit in 1955 still can be found. After some private organized hikes to Timpanogos' summit in 1911, the physical education department at Brigham Young University began an annual hike. In 1921, more than ,200 attended e bonfire and 650 climbed the the mountain the next morning. In its final year around 1971, the last annual hike included more than 5,000 people. In 1917, BYU coed Dora Roberts participated in the annual hike and wrote about her experience in the university publication. White and Blue.: "At noon on August 3, all hikers accompanied by many of our friends assembled on the BYU campus." She wrote that the vehicles dropped the hikers at Wildwood in I'rovo Canyon. From there, they hiked the five miles up North Fork to Aspen Grove where they camped, ate and had a big She said there public were 316 participants. "About 3:30 the next morning . . . we were aw akened from our peaceful slumbers by the beautiful strains of 1 pre-hik- the sacred song. The HoK City. "How solemn it seemed 'as the sweet refrain floated to us on the night air! The very ground on which we were seemed holy and sacred and the line in Bryant's beautiful poem reiterated itself in our minds as it never had before: The groves were God's first temples.' "Soon after day daw ned. all was bustle and hurry in camp and at 5:30 a.m., the bugle called hikers together and the climb to the top of the highest point of the Wasatch rage 12,009 feet, was begun." More modern measurement methods today place the summit at 1,750. "The scenery on the way up was beyond description. The numerous waterfalls, rugged mountains, snow fields, giant pine trees, towering cliffs and d (lower bed. and the atmosphere which they seemed to give out made us feel that we were living in another world. "At Emerald Lake, the entire company stopped to lunch. Nourished b the good thick sandwiches from our lunch baskets, and the clear, water from the lake, we felt equal to the climb up the glacier, which was to be one of the novelties of the hike. 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