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Show THE ZEPHYR/FEBRUARY-MARCH 2004 THE ROAD TO GLEN CANYON OLD STATE HIGHWAY 95 IN THE 1950s EDITOR's NOTE: In the late 1950s, a man named Charlie Kreischer and his wife made several trios through Glen Canyon with river guide Harry Aleson. Decades later, | met the Kreischers at Arches National Park and they told me of their great adventures in Glen Canyon, now flooded by the Powell Reservoir. Charlie later gave me scores of color photographs of his journeys and they became one of my most treasured possessions. These photos are from that collection of photographs...JS _ . NEAR NATURAL BRIDGES JUNCTION: Charlie Kreischer took this photo heading west near the old junction to Natural Bridges National Monument. In the '50s a short dirt road led visitors to “park headquarters," an old CCC shed just west of Owachamo Bridge. From there, vistors hiked up White Canyon to see Kachina and Sipapu Bridges. Today the paved loop road, completed in the late '60s, provides windshield tourists an ‘effortless view.’ = THE WARNING: This sign warned the timid and the foolish alike to take it easy and to come prepared. ROAD TO HANKSVILLE: West of the ferry, the road began its climb up North Wash to the badlands east of Hanksville. | PAGE I6 | THE WHITE CANYON STORE: Only the bare necessities. |