Show ' i‘ ' :j r ' v:v - ’ " 'rrPjiHB fjpEJjl xf : v - - w i vw Jb tn : j 5$ Thursday Tfecember 1 21974 v ': Vf 1 v "- Nov Visitors Up in fi: ' i " Visitation at'' News- Paper Rock State His- torical Monument for the month of November was 542 visitors which is a 11 decrease over last year's November visi- This brings foe visitation for the to 7456 visitors wf1 Arch is about By F A Barnes Some 25 miles south of high and four fecTwide Moab k mature andgrace- - Not a Urge opening but fol arch stands: beside Mg enough and near wv a t rtttesUckrock that contains Baby Arch “m fc iJm for the month of Noveni- her which brings the yearns visitation total to 11870 visitors which is still much below foe 1973 total visitation of 22891 It seems foe visitation at all outlying areas has dropped foe past two years with foe higher Pl!cLof Wfs - A Youth Engineering and Technology Confer- enca for Junior high and high school students was held at BYU Saturday Twenty - six v Ipo“i?!y!' £' anical Engineering or a technology department There was a t refresli-tatio- n ment break at nii and lunch was ser-ye? mid-mor-to- tal vedinfoecafeteruFol- fowing the afternoon o j-p r'-- v Lrvjdti? - I A : t ing them ’ -- W in foe near future participants wduld to thank foe School ar 0 ' 'i - i TS?" n M :wk ' 'fl — 1 "J ’?£'& BV IflGtiuTODlli CGil?6i'6nC6 Al lUliuSU "I?1 'T- ''ifvftb: rf The view from Baby Arch is magnificent The slickrock recedes toward distant Hook & Ladder Gulch and US 163 curves across the desert toward : : the Abajo Mountains to the south : s —— —— Area State Parks " jS'Mffl' Firt' - - 1: - A11 likef ' Dis-- C trict very much for bus- - J Saturday was considered to be a very educational and worth-- whUe experience! - - f v ! : - Si r' rfV jrtere-v- wire Landscape in Arches National Park and Angel fo CamronUnds National Park because it is with- in sUht of heavily tra- veled national highway About two miles south of Wilson Arch cm the same side of foe roadand in tto same colorful En- trada sandstone another stretcn or aoout a nail- mile For those who want a closer look at the lovely span in the making' there are two options -- - take a pleasant hike of about two miles or use an off- road vehicle to follow a jeep trail that goes quite near foe span ?le' “J - BabyutArch can first"her® one travelbe erin a thousand sjrata it spotted there is a gate in Two things inspire to the hihway fence Sev- - nf from th l!frch unkn07"- foe lilffowsy - andit °bcure fnl branch out beyondjtndls this but the one to foe veritable pte will go toward foe arches mass of slickrock that yoisteramong Yet it has foe potential contains foe arch Again becoming a muchlar- - there are several choi- and vey lovely span ces on this trail but in a land of big and none go far including the spectacular natural spans correct one that skirts is a small come®n‘ ts' ?SiLt0 sheer ll thralled size by 416 base of foe slickrock on a wooded : mesh age-round- ed hole--maki- ng Tflfaf rVMIMT A former College of Eastern Utah instructor has been named as deputy director of foe Atmos pheric Sciences atory at White Sands Missile Range in New Sg Labor-doubtf- his BS degree in it is possible to walk on up foe ' sloping rock to just below foe of foe young opening arch On foe other side of a window thousands of ful slickrock climbing years ago then slowly The highway side gives enlarged to the present foe best and closest look at foe arch and foe thin site The hole which estab- - rock surrounding foe lished Baby Arch how- - opening ever is very new barely ' This short trip from a few years or decades foe highway has curious old The rock through aspects in addition to foe which foe hole appeared young arch The main is eggshell thin in quite wash below foe rock mass a large ared so foe chan- - is named Hook & Ladder ces of its enlargement in Gulch a name which con-fo- e near future are good jures up visions of an It is this transition from thin wall to window careening down foe cur-t- o with baby arch to mature ving sandy draw arch that is fascinating bells clanging firemen especially when one can hanging on for dear life see one or two of these and the steersman on foe fight-umsteps occurring within a long ladder-traillifetime Right ing furionsly to keep his now foe irregularly machinery- on the path of jlde wash care-form- fire-wag- ed er - ed on an 'fr I t K4irJ- 88 EAST CENTER STREET —MOAB ARCHES BUILDING te uf or KITTY KELLING ? iw - i GENERAL AGEIST PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS & PERSONAL INSURANCE PLANNING UfEftREfiTR PROPERTY & CAS12SITY sitors to date this year compared with 1369 in 1973 which is a 47 per j£ National Parks cent increase in visitaHowever foe Natural tion The Natural Brid Bridges National Monu- - ges has had six per cent ment jand Island in foe fewer visitors this year Sky District had more Island in foe Sky Dist- visitors this year than rlct had eight per cent last year with 24 per fewer and foe Needles cent more for the Nathad seven per cent fewer ural Bridges and 38 per this year cent more for foe Island in foe Sky District Overnight stays clim- The Arches received 53reSrirCtTn NoIeUl! 14 percent fewer visi- the tors last month than in JnLstyear SSiters to sUy in National Park JhISLSi declined 11 per cent this N with 28826 to date uonai a Ark naci 0110 per year this year compared with cent more visitors than to date last year 32430 last year The Park includes Island in foe Sky for Overnight stays foe Needles and foe Maze November took a big jump from 69 to 171 in Island Last year to date 272- -' in foe Sky District which foe represents a 148 per cent 842 people visited Arches compared with increase while Natural 167863 so far this year Bridges had 78 per cent This is s decline of 38 fewer overnights with 105 per cent The Maze Dis- compared to 469 in trict ha! had 2006 vi- 197? y?llj?nl 'y-VS ' H7 November is a slack month for visitation in foe Canyon-land- s preach f ::r ed-g- er alcove to foe southeast of foe arch On the highway side ap-f- oe math-t- TO VISIT US AT OUR NEW ematics physics and ucation from Utah State University in 1951 He was a member of foe faculty at CEU during the 1955-5- 6 school year teaching math and phy- He has been at sics White Sands since 1956 Gn Park Visits!ion enters a broad shelving A' ul Mexico Henry Rachele a na- tive of Helper Utah and graduate of Carbon High School and College of Eastern Utah received to below foe fin on foe highway side foe other such side trip leads v'11 ! r 5‘J White Sftilfft TJvSrAe UfinfAp IUII tWlSIlCl lUAUdll 9 TaII it is possible to get fair-fir- st more ly close and below foe than an arch-- - opening with a little - - ? 'i on the solid but sloping rock that lies below foe fin containing the arch One ’I foe dry the brim The topograph- ic map of this region calls this ridiculous con- struction “CCC Reser- yoir” and shows water behind it but whether this make - work sieve - like rock wall ever actually held gny water before it filled with sand is open to question As noted earlier other trails branch outfit foe highway gate Most end soon but one after an obscure detour across a picturesque rim of slick- rock leads to an area with excellent rockhoun- ding a whole system of canyons well worth ex- pioring and another com- plex series of remote and seldom - traveled back- country trails But that’s another whole story or maybe two yet there is a fascination terrace to small spans especially At two points on this those that have a poten- - trail it is possible to or three tial for becoming larger leave foe trail and drive in foe near Mure' And the “young” arch south of Wilson Arrh is Just such a span Like Wilson Arch foe youngster - let’s call it for foe sake “Baby An-hof a latx i -- - formed in a fin of monolithic Entrada In each case slickrock slow action of wind and water have worked to- gether to punch a hole through a fin or wall of sandstone With - Wilson Arch this spans f ySK i it fy HI Y4' S- No-vrm- W "SERVICE WITH A SMILE it :ti 1 88 East Center Moab BESS ' 'n - : 259-766- 4 'i J: 'I 4" "ii ki tip" - juivij e'4vn : i i H 1J 3H "'Ai i v" - r - ' ““J" |