Show MMeahk - - —- 11 1" ” 1 The Salt Lake Tribune 1 p' I i '$ :la 1 1 0 F By Tom Ale Cart hey 17 if t ' ( V40 t vzpirtiri t n 4 j 1 1: I iit 4) 4' tl '1 '11 ' so i''' 4 qr:v : :' ' 4 - ' -1 ' c - '' t7 t ' 'f ': citor 1L mt le: v 01 1 1 '4F ' 4 ri '4''t ' ' A '--' 'k 404 - -- ' ' 1 t0) 0:4 - tv 1 2 Iiit - g caught my breath from the descent down Chickapin Hill and seemingly plunged into darkness I found myself singing over and over as I got off the ride The log ride has been in the works since 1983 according to John McClintock senior publicist for Disneyland Always trying to top themselves the Disney "imagineers" tossed ideas about the attraction back and forth said the publicist The imagineers not only had to come up with something as exciting as "Space Mountain" the "Matterhorn" and "Big Thunder Mountain" they had to win the approval of management Designers sketch artists writers and model builders put their heads together to create "Splash Mountain" The ride has been going through several trial runs explained McClintock and has been closed off After soaked-to-the-bo- Pella SS VMille:- -ism "Splash Mountain" Disneyland's newest attraction takes riders on a waterborne journey through swamps bayous '''' - p '- N l' 4& ' k IP -- ' ' - the rollercoaster thrill of the "Matterhorn" the clever found in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the storytelling fantasy of "It's a Small World" L o cated in the famed theme park's Critter Country area the log flume ride takes riders on a water-born- e journey through backwoods swamps and bayous and down waterfalls It is based on the 1946 Walt Disney film "Song Of The South" The highlight of the watery voyage is a plunge from the top of the mountain to a briar-fillepond five stories below On a recent visit to Disneyland this writer took a ride on "Splash MountaM" and gave it two thumbs up Because I was seated in the very front of the roller-coaststyle log I ended up getting wet But it was refreshingwet ly wet not d 5kK 7- '''' l "Splash Mountain" the attractions's designers not only have the settings faithfully from "Song Of The South" they have sprinkled in generous portions of the ufsilime': Academy Award-winninfoot-tal- "Splash nine-minu- te 410 p ct w P"sabottemolionditi -- et !'''J '44 - 114 4!''' lo1 t 4 404A f - ot-- e s ' - - 1 ' s '4'-- e '14i14114- - t - 0 4 NI I 8 :1C4: 44(31's" gf 51 -- N - 1wl eierfor to1tt 4: 10 — Mountain" Disneyland's newest attraction is the best of Disney rolled into one The log flume ride features v 4 1! 4 1-- - I 7 it? Calif ANAHEIM 11 A w 10i ik!' v 111 4FL S i low t Tribune Travel Editor ' - 71 Vg'41: N I !itY)1 c: 424): -7- - - 3u There were characters galore along the way to entertain (more than 100) including the wily Brer Rabbit the cunning Brer Fox and the gullible Brer Bear Within the 87- - I and On due to technical difficulties The day I was there it was closed two different times McClintock said it wasn't because the ride was unsafe but rather because the animated characters weren't working properly Fall comes twice á year to Great Lakes By Jay Clarke Knight-Ridde- Sea-Wat- DULUTH Minn — This is Gitchi Gurnee country the land of Hiawatha You won't find Nokomis the daughter of the moon by the shining here that is Lake Supebig rior But you will find smoked fish and cheese gooseberries and waterfalls and automobiles that wear canoes on their roofs Summer is waning now but there won't be any fewer cars on Superior's North Shore for a month or more because early autumn is as big a season as summer Tourists are still leaving their footprints on the hiking trails (including one misspelled Gitchi Gummi) on this scenic shore They're still clambering in and around pretty cascades like Gooseberry and Tettegouche falls gawking at the famous old Split Rock Lighthouse paddling on the canoe trails and buying beadwork and birchbark baubles in the roadside gift shops It's so busy that tourists who haven't made advance reserva tions may have a difficult time obtaining accommodations There's a reason: Autumn comes twice here First it colors the inland hardwood forests peaking in Then its wand moves to the lakeshore transforming the pies the poplars the birch and aspens into fiery counterpoints to perior's deep blue waters This happens toward the end of September and into October providing a second autumn display It's all part of what they call the "lake effect" — the weather anomalies good and bad that result from the presence of this biggest of the Great Lakes In summer temperatures "over the hill" — beyond the lake basin — are much hotter than close to the shore In winter the lake effect keeps the coast warmer than regions just a few miles inland though it also kicks up some of the most disagreeable storms you'll encounter sea-wat- i I Galapagos tour r The lake that looks so placid in summer can become within hours a raging destructive horror in late fall and winter Hundreds of ships have been lost in these storms including in 1975 the 729-foEdmund Fitzgerald which sank so fast that it couldn't get off a distress signal But tourists don't come in autumn to sail on the lake They come now to drink in the scenery and cast a line for the chinook salmon that run at this time of year because in a few weeks the North Shore like the rest of the northern Midwest goes into tourist hibernation "It's the best time to be in the woods" said Dan Russell of the Duluth Convention and Visitor Bureau The combination of brilliant fall colors and cascading streams on the North Shore produces scenes you want to lithograph Lake Superior is still exuding its summer warmth — its temperature last week was 62 degrees almost balmy for this perpetually chilly body of water — and the weather is in that delightful 'tweenseason stage neither too hot nor too cold You can drive on the lake's northern coast all the way around from Duluth to Sault Ste Marie a distance of 650 miles But most visitors stick to the western portion in the state of Minnesota drove north from Duluth about 60 miles making frequent stops and would have gone farther to the charming town of Grand Marais had time permitted Waterfalls overlooks rotates on a bed of liquid mercury You can marvel at the difficulties encountered by the lighthouse keepers who used hoists derricks and later a tramway to lift supplies to the cliff-to- p light during its first years there was no access by land Farther along I drove to the top of Palisade Head the westernmost of the chain of cliffs on the lakeshore From canoes at its base Indian braves used to compete in shooting arrows to the summit few succeeded A few hundred yards beyond lies Tettegouche State Park with 15 miles of hiking trails and three lovely waterfalls Here I searched for agate rocks on the lake shore — they are found all along this coast — but without success Thompsonite a particularly attractive rock is found only on the beaches just north of Silver Bay Not all the attractions I visited were created by nature At Tom's Logging Camp a tourist attraction near Two Harbors I paid just $150 to visit a replica of an old North -- BEEHIV est areas in the world for wildlife study and photography will be explored on a natural history cruise offered by Nature Expeditions International 474 Willamette PO Box 11496 Eugene Ore 97440 Another problem the Disney I OMB No Po 1011 Hundred ta I Mal EDT) al London and Theater A Week 272-80- 3 $ 66 WEEK NINCLUDES: RT ( IN of 1 1)) Own bv tim Savings! 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Only Disney could figure out a perfect way to get riders a little bit wet Incidentally the voice of Brer Bear on the new ride is none other than that of Nick Stewart veteran actor who supplied the famous r:13 "By the shores of Gitchi Gurnee By the shining Big Stood the wigwam of Nokomis Daughter of the Moon Nokomis" 0— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "The Song of Hiawatha T3 Getting a little wet on Splash Mountain p 1' Sunday September 24 1989 111 y leber City 521-061- 263-957654-348- 1 1 1 1 |