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Show Sljf Salt Calif (Tribune Recreation Section C January Thursday Morning Page 10 30, 1906 . Snowmobiling to the North Rim By Dan Miller Tribune Staff Writer JACOB LAKE. Ariz The popularity of the Grand Canyon has been growing each year. Millons of vistors gather about its rim yearly to look out at one of the natural wonders of - the world. This great popularity, though, has made finding soil ude difficult. The lodges are full and campers, hikers, dogs, people and cameras seem to be everywhere. The situation is almost overw helming However, there is a man with a solution. Utahn Doug McKmght has devised a plan to allow people to see "the same scenery without the people." McKnight is offering snowmobile tours throughout the winter months to the rim of the canyon. The tours begin at Jacob Lake running through the Kaibab National Forest to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. With snow closing the only road to the North Rim overlook, access is very limited and limited is the wav McKnight likes it. He views snowmobiling with a wall-to-wa- of the world. Snowmobile provides about the only access to North Rim in winter. Dwight and Kathy Andrus pause at the brink of one of the great natural wonders small group of people on the Kaibab Forest as "a peetacular way to see the canyon." The trip begins at Jacob Lake Inn and then w inds south through the Kaibab (lying mountain) National Forest. This particular trip was filled with sunshine and blue sky. The temperatures were in the high 50s. making sunglasses and sunscreen useful items. Because of the unusually warm temperatures and a lack of snow this year, the snowpack has become a bit sparce. We are not seeing it the snow at its best" McKnight said "Most years, there are 10 feet of snow " ) The forest is a mixture of trees with the great ponderosa pine the most common. McKnight said it is possible to encounter wildlife during the tour but did say "they could hear us and hide" before getting a glimpse. One snowmobiler claimed to have cat. Other animals seen a that can be encountered are turkey, coyote, deer and a rare mountain lion There also is a chance of seeing ring-taile- white tail. It is only found in the North Rim of the Grand Canyon and it dosen't hibernate There are no trail markers but the route will eventually be marked for those w ho care to venture out without a guide. Cost of the tour, which includes a snowmobile, snowsuit. lunch, gasoline and guide, is $1 10 dollars per person. If you provide all your equipment and need only a lunch and a guide, the cost would be J40 per person Halfway up. the trail opens into large meadows where the throttle can be opened and wide smooth turns can be leaned into Some prime play time can be spent here McKnight has set up a small trailer seven miles from the rim Once reaching it, your guide will start up the portable heaters inside. Then it's on to the rim Coming onto the r,m. there is a feeling of being swalb veil by the space created by the opening abyss Apply the brake gently and tcoe over to the side for a view of the Grand Canyon Absorb all you can You have only the rare Kaibab squirrel with its See C-- Column Trail System Connects Utah, Idaho By Tom Wharton Tribune Outdoor Editor - LOGAN CANYON Logan Can-yojust looks like a fine place to go q snowmobiling. There are wide open spaces, great play areas and scenery that can compare with anything in the West. That fact hasn't gone unnoticed by sndwmobilers from Utah and Idaho who, thanks to officials from both states, can now enjoy one of the first interstate snowmobile trails in the United States. fjtate, federal and county officials dedicated the new Logan Canyon trail last week in a special ceremony on the state line, some six miles north of the Beaver Mountain ski resort. e A trail groomed by the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation, which begins at a parking area near the turnoff to the ski resort, connects with a much larger complex of trail systems groomed by Dcrrald White, a volunteer for the Idaho Parks Department. The trail system can also be Column See six-mil- The trail from Jacob Lake through the Kaibab Forest to the Grand Canyon has 1 C-l- l. some nice meadows surrounded by pines where the snowmobiler can turn it loose. 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