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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday September 9. 1992 Around The Haf by Doris Valle m My urge to flee cash regis- - ters and accounting ledgers is stronger than ever right now as I contemplate the coming long dark days, Why is it that spring and fall fly by, while the blister-lingl- y hot days of July and August drag, and the gloomy cold days of winter linger for months? Any- numerous Page 12 nated, wondering just what kind of ancient man made his home there and how long ago. had to cljmb to the top, whether or not we had a nice easy up, I hung on to the side of a rock slide, trying to catch my breath, and asking, Eventually we What is a woman my age doing here? And I hadnt recovered way, it feels like months. On one of my escapes, Lee Dick, Gail Goeken, and I went up on the Mesa for a very short hike, only we came back down the hill as dusk was settling over the Valley of the Gods. We climbed down to a ledge over Johns Canyon. We could see below us an area known in my family as Pauls Canyon. There are - from that adventure, when my son Paul called to tell me that friends of his would be in Mexican Hat the next day and it would be nice if I told them how to get to Poncho House. I cant tell people how to get there. I just have to feel my way in because the roads go every which way, I said. Are these really good friends? kinda. They at Intel. Theyre se- Well, work nior to me. That settled that. I escorted five young men to Poncho House. It was unbearably hot on the way in, and we raced with a thunder storm bn our way back to the car. One walks across a lot of wide open space and lightning flashing over- vous when there's nothing closer to the sky than ones own head. But I was all right. I made sure that I walked surrounded by those young men because they are all taller than I. Unfortunately, they are all tougher than me, too. As well as younger. head makes one a bit ner much, much American Kidney Foundation UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY Offers College Courses in Moab for the Fall Quarter 1992 III natural caves there, and bits of flint and petroglyphs indicate Anasazi occupation. On a rock outside one of those CL- - caves the Shumway boy scratched his intitials the day before he and his grandfather died at the hands of a Texas renegade named Palmer. I often had wanted to walk on the ledge above Pauls Canyon, wondering if the people who lived below made their way up the side of the Mesa in that area. Perhaps they lived in caves near the top. Ledge walking is something like eating potato chips. One keeps thinking just one more. Just around one more corner - and then theres no way up, and by my rules its illegal to backtrack, so one corner leads to another as the hours El. PSY E2 El.- - E go by. did find one cave which had been occupied, probably long before the days of those we call Anasazis. There were natural rocks put together with We a crude form of masonry, and we saw just a few bits of chiseled stone, probably crude tools. We were fasci- - cv. Register by calling U.S.U. Center in Moab 2 or 7213 (801) Dr. Dennis A 259-743- Blackburn, D.P.M. Foot specialist for infants, children and adults will be at the CLASSES BEGIN THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 28 Blanding Clinic September 10 Thursday Afternoon For appointment please call classes begin SEPTEMBER COM-NE- T All courses carry full U.S.U. credit - 30, 1992 transferable to any accredited college or university in the United States Southeastern Utah Center for Continuing Education "Success" begins with S.U.C.C.E. |