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Show I said. "If he doesn’t know about it, you're probably right...where ~ is it?" ; She stared at me for a long moment and drew another long ‘gulp. “How hot was it today?” "Not too bad. 101, I think. Kay..." She held up her hand like a traffic cop at a busy intersection as she coaxed the last drop of tea from the glass. Then she looked at me and said, "I’m not telling.” "You're not telling? Not anybody?" "Nobody." "Well how do you know that Epperson hasn’t seen it?” "l don’t for sure... asked him if he knew where there were granaries in the park and he said he only knew of one. I asked him where it was and all he would do is point vaguely at the park map. But he pointed over here and mine...,” she hesitated THEJZEPH Volume 14 Number I On "Kickstarting the Economy; Highway Boondoggle at Devils Canyon; MORE weirdness. for a minute as she stared at our park map. "...Mine is sort of Kay said, "Someday you'll thank me for this. If you ever do stumble upon it on your own, it’ll mean a lot more.” Seven years later, on another scorching summer afternoon, I was "sort of over here,” and there, under an overhang, miles from where I once imagined it might be, I found the mystery granary. "You're not telling? Not anybody?” “Nobody.” 32 6..... POINTBLANK "The Hard Way: Taking a Bike Trip WITHOUT Support Vehicles" By Claire Rogers and NEW WEST BLUES By Jim Stiles “ENRON'S Ken G Linda Lay Find a Home" over here. That’s all I'll tell you.” : I gazed at the topo and nodded. "Well, that narrows it down to about 25,000 acres. You're all heart." But I knew she was right. NUTSHELL:-The Photographic Evidence DOG OF THE MONTH _ "THE TWO O'CLOCK GANG’ More! THE ZEPHYR BACKBONE There was no sign of recent human visitation. As far as I know, it still remains one of the Secret Places. But for how long? And if it becomes just another part of the commercial tour, if it’s just another snapshot along the way, hasn’t it been diminished in some way? . I still recall the sad saga of Antelope Canyon. Mentioning it by name now doesn’t cause me to flinch a muscle. It’s too late now--it’s become yet another in a long line of "sacrifice areas,” but 25 years ago, I first saw a photo of this wondrous place on a calendar. I was relieved to see that the photo caption only identified the location as "a slot canyon on the Colorado Plateau." This was not long after my learning experience with Kay and I made a vow to myself that I would never even try to find the canyon. That would be my contribution to its survival. But a couple years passed and it began to show up in other calendars, now with a name attached to it, and I asked a ranger friend of mine who worked at North Rim. "Sure," he said. "Antelope Canyon...That’s the slot canyon near "(1 still can’t bring myself to reveal the name of the town.) I shook my head. "Is it seeing much use?" "Yeah," he said. "More than it can handle, I’m afraid." Years passed and I continued to see photographs and descriptions in various publications--you know what I mean-the Outside Magazine-esque’ "How to get there. What to wear. What 14... MY OLD MAN: The Uranium King...Part2 By Mark Steen Charlie has struck it rich..now the myths begin. The Zephyrs asks Utah environmental leaders for their vision of Rural Utah in the years ahead. 19.....SPECIAL SECTION THE TOP TEN SECRET PLACES OF THE CANYON COUNTRY! 26..... THE SILVER BULLE T By Scott Silver NEW! From the man who gives new meaning to mucksaking.....Silver spares no one. AND he’s a one-man army against FEE DEMO. 28... AROUND THE BEND AGAIN By Ken Sleight Ken remembers Life in Escalante, Utah. 30... HERB RINGER’S AMERICAN Good old Outside and their eye-catching cover stories: "Utah's Best Kept Secrets." WEST - Her6 finds Hollywood in the Sierras and makes himself a star as well. you'll see" filler stories that magazines like that make their money ‘on. YR April/May 2002 -33...PICTORIAL: Is Moab Overbuilt or Underpromoted? Right. But not for long, eh guys? Then, in 1995, heading home from Death Valley, I saw-~the sign by the side of the road: ANTELOPE CANYON GUIDED TOURS. STOP NOW! NEXT TOUR LEAVES IN ONE HOUR SUBSCRIBE TO THE ZEPHYR Finally, watching television in a Motel 6 a few months later, Antelope Canyon made its network premier in a Zantac 75 commercial for acid indigestion. What connection this otherworldly crack in the rock had to a stomach ache remedy still bewilders me. But after I watched the commercial I needed several of the little pink pills. SIX ISSUES (ONE YEAR): $15.. TWELVE ISSUES (TWO YEARS): $28 EIGHTEEN ISSUES (THREE YEARS): $40 NAME ADDRESS CITY STATE 6 9-DIGIT ZIP It doesn’t take a lot of human effort to cheapen something sacred. More often than not, the degradation is unintentional. And unnoticed by the trespassers. The Secret Places are going fast and for the Next Generation maybe it doesn’t even matter. But it should, because without them we are a diminished people. The rocks don’t really givea damn what we do to them. Whether we honor them or whether we treat them like a product to be packaged, marketed, and sold...that’s our choice. ZEPHYR@MOCI.NET AND THE WEB SITE WWW. CANYONCOUNTRYZEPHYR.COM | PLEASE READ THIS! The Post Office will NOT forward 3rd Class mail. If you do not send us a change of address, we cannot be responsible for issues you did not receive. Subscriptions must begin with the next issue. Back issues arc available at ridiculous prices. Call for a price list. Those readers who choose to take advantage of the multi-year discounts do so at their own risk. There is no guarantee that the world will be here in three years, let alone this publication. 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