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Show TV GUIDE RONALD REAGAN cene '75 THURSDAY, MARCH 20, PAUL HARVEY 1175 FEATURES CLASSIFIEDS along the bear river SUPPLEMENT TO THE NEWS EXAMINER. PRESTON CITIZEN, CACHE CITIZEN, GRACE CITIZEN AND THE LEADER GARLAND TIMES t 67 $r yu shsilloing - m numtesht climbing The old sport of mountaineering or mountain climbing which suggests that you aren't climbing it right unless you do it the hard way is blossoming in this area. According to Steve Grif- fith, Logan, who has been mountain climbing for about six years, there could be as many as 100 or more real" climbers in Cache Valley. About 50 or 60 are on campus. He, along with Joe Galloway, Preston, who operates the Mountain Man Sport Shop, plan to conduct a mountain climbing school in the first week in April. Steve has taught the sport at the free university at Utah State for three quarters. He is a native Californian who started on peaks down there. . IT IS NOT the most common sight to see a pair in' more climbers meticulously feeling their way up an area canyon wall, but in other areas of the United States .and throughout the world climbing Bites are becoming jammed. One Saturday about a year ago, more than 2000 climbers inched their way up and down the faces, cracks and overhangs of Yosemite peaks, which has become one of the meccas for the adherents to climb-- , ing. Joe and Steve and in Yosemite this week, making climbs if they two two-da- y can find the room. One nationally known climber, Jim Whittaker, who was the first American to ascent Mount Everest, said that we are entering the golden age of climbing." Newsweek magazine reported recently that the reasons for mountain climbing's sudden appeal are manifold:' it satisfies the publics rising ecological consciousness; it provides outdoor exercise for urbanites; it presents a dangerous challenge, and for some it offers a mystical experience. . ' . THE ONLY WAY to exis to take you to the top of a mountain. Its sort of like instant sue- cess, a climbing school plain the feeling ' ' director said. To illustrate their sport, Joe and Steve took off an afternoon and gave a demonstration of free climbing on one of the sheer walls of Logan canyon recently. Contrary to movie versions, they were unable to scale the ' wall in just a minute or so, but had to feel" and chalk" their way up the wall, one at a JOE GALLOWAY (LEFT) "BELAYS WHILE STEVE GRIFFETH CLIMBS ON UP THE CLIFF . . . THEN STEVE STOPS AND MAKES HIS BED FOR THE NIGHT WHILE JOE LOOKS ON. time. With Steve belaying or being the anchor man at the bottom, Joe climbed up about 20 feet, securing the rope in carabiners along the way. Joe then secured himself and belayed" for Steve., to climb up to Joe, removing the equipment in the rock cracks, as he came. Steve demonstrated sleeping while hanging on the wall and then climbed up to the top while Joe anchored. - side of the mountain. One of the secrets of good climbing is the proper location of the chalks, Hex or Jam nuts, a machine nut-lik- e object made out of alumin-- , urn alloy, which are fastened to nylon straps and lodged into cracks and crevices along the face of the wall. The rope is then secured to them. NEEDLESS TO say, when the got to the top, about two hours after starting, they both walked down the back THIS SHOWS THE CHALKS, THE ROCK. STEVE HOLDS FASTENED AN for about two TO THE OF CARABINERS FASTENER THEN WHICH L TO THE WAS CUMBER; HAMMERED STEVE AND include Lundon Spire in the Willard Peak area, Blacksmith Canyon, Logan Canyon, Mink Creek, near Preston, Weston Canyon, Green Canyon, north of Logan Canyon, the Preston Canyon, just north of Green Canyon. Others are in the Wasatch and Cache National forests. All you have to do is try it, to want to do it more, Joe said, who has been climbing OLD TYPE in months earnest. ' There are many mountains to climb in this area in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho, the men said. They INTO THE CHALKS THE ROCK ARE WEDGED CRACKS. IN A CRACK IN JOE PREPARE FOR THEIR CLIMB AND THEN JOE FEELS HIS WAY UP THE CANYON WALL |