Show i r - j 4 il ' - ' j'V i ' '£ iV " y JM WMHlf v ’f ' 'V f V: I" ' - Thursday December 19 1974 - i VJ S accumulated and a my file of photographs has grown which logy paleontology biology ecology archeolo- gy human history and mind - boggling natural my new career started with an ex- - t pcrtm ' technical “hitch-hike- Ixtufr uuouy oi pSSS-ipublished travel gear and still have room for three or four passengers This view is looking down the Colorado River from the Moab Rim Trail back-count- ry : For Sir “ “ Itacover ’’oJjJ'foSf' "sysyr first -- to be exact my travel story for the Moab ap- pea red in these pages TOat storyhas since Times-Independe- nt others plus an assort- ment of news items and picture spreads someof - mem' travel' oriented' others not ? During this time some “hf7 SS' IKl Ti0f ssffwss Times readers who fol- our canyonlands ad- ventures It is high time then low how I can keep on turning out these travel stories week after week year after year without re- pealing Good questions that deserve in answer has also occured to me that to a great many Times readers particu- sub- out-of-sta- te as?s?“ writing for the Times well into its fifth year that I step momentarily out' from behlnd niy ca- mera and typewriter in- troduce myself and my answer all questions about how I get the material that appears in these pages First a bit of back- ground that relates to how I brought my family to Moab in the first place By career I am — or was — an engineer My wife Terby wss — and those - Fora scribers Fran Barnes still is is just a name without a secretary face Although my wife and occasionally my daughter have appeared as foreground in many of the photographs I have to illustrate my sto- ries rarely do Iget with- in sight on my camera’s proiiietlon cumentotioJmissilede- - sign review production trouble - shooting and many other more exotic what with a new year' engineering tasks within 'of my faithful local read- - familyand ers have asked me aisr SnMri' top-flig- ht two de- - cades we pursued our career together usu- ally within the same big west-coa- st company My specialties over the years included petrole- urn -- chemical research laboratory chemical en- - -- industries -- w therea our return from MeriS wtotthe7headffi Sro a s-ss!aa- 5 ji “ many for1iich ml Ki®4SSSS8tt:- 2fJ!Jind and Drenarinff area within icide Buttowwe where to eo and when? FortM maintain a list This list to visit areas we want to explore and trails wa want to follow The list jg coded to showauorox v ' mmntee fdioto-n- r u" Xth “outooardfpr canoe artiffiaUtof1- tram:i tablishprioS v yi'v" V3:i r' - - - - even though t we manigS to 7: item on that tist almost every weekend ‘ fowell square-en- d vy v 'Au - ' weF‘ : tmrij f f i b r- 'A'rf'V 'h r - vers A small trail also gets occasioiiti - - useas does small a wmiaj4as oei hundred- Moab is so vssUndbeautiM and travels such material As this experience has tWs tontaStic Und wer of three roct“g rigitag : md a ' 21 luestion in S0Illand? for Lake nswer the the the aerosnaee industry £E!S5 fi 22ii5lLi015i£r JE? ? £ iSis Srt mHUmT plore the waterways cf P°n 80me rrt-?Xiat5IL- space period But this conventional We never got there ' success had :ai hollow Moab simoly had 'too ‘'re ring to it So we took a much'to cfer thif’We sabatical a “breather” wanted and our old from the " work-a-da- y rears had too little treadmill and for sev- - rwtjat better new career eral years just traveled r could I have chosen than around western North to use some of myerist- America in a twwl trailer following the seasons from the States to Canada and back then wintering in sunny Mex-- It ico During these rootless ly peregrinations we covered tae canyonlands of southeastern Utah On our first swing through Moab wc intended to spend just a “few days" seeing a new national park called Canyonlands but found ourselves stay-use- d ing on for six weeks A year later on another southward swine we wllh Mg S°f ?iftatoW Sr more interestiS Vnd mtiMw ffanv witoin ' eXDlorim7: wSS:- itretchcd mir tw even in early spring ed directly for Mrab!in- - S : nifoto localairtwr ftvffnIS JSJTta h ? lre Ste roSSidve our nousenoia about Thursday or Friday is -where are we goii this weekend a one magazines Skolwflf Sis ie - A common ar- - largeTboIt" Sen a houseboat repcted Tsonal satisfaction I ve seen my articles ppearJil? mor® than a ?°z®n difr"®nt national- - !il? s canyonianos country All ft photography has devel- - it takes Is the time to go comfortable oped l out and seek these pace From a lowly free- - things and a dozen life- tancer happy to see any- - times would not be nearly thing in print I have fi- endugh time to encom- najiy reached the point pass them all where I make fairly reg- It is this and ular contributions to finding ' thatseeking my family several magazines and and I find so gratifying serve as After all what could be newspapers associate editor for the more gratifying than do- OUUornla cuVtat tag magazine DESERT and joy doing most then have just taken a first sharlreyour experienc- step into the fieldofpub- - w witodhers? Most but not all of Jishi'j? with a pictorial guide created our travelingand seeking from my own material out the secrets and beau- My new career has Ul wondrous land tyoidone been far from as re- - is on weekends muneratlve as aerospace This permits my wife to but has join me and often our engineering — ” rubber n rim river - This four wheel drive Toyota Land Cruiser sees more miles than any of our other vehicles Like most such v'UI !S'M A ' Vrf'sV V ’''fr5 ' t 0'‘ 4 Ik MS ::&'& y v ' p'JiiVr's '4: O' ‘ mtSTSm1 de " WrtiiavetadS i tra--rneaf- rir? u’ 1 -- canyon Continued on page B2 dis-lar- — — KITCHEN CENTER FOOD MZPMATtON BUGHNtg Introdudna the kitchen companion nfeest Miky to happen in the kitchen since toe dWraMhery in one handsome compact a multitude of Spin Cookery wonders mixKcnd the heaviest of betters and grind tho toughest of (bods with no storags probienfil most-wante- d iri&d ya awMim w im HltUbM mwh yiwwi nowdw km bra Ms NtMnl 0OWMIIM bIh hornwngw WKINIX CmmT Sio" I JMM 8w55rVewW SficW-Saiii- ia Faaibet i r cROURjtonssms 8ft xl broiling surface rotlsserie Smoke) spatter-free cooking ' ‘ ' 12 p9N9US¥9U o wrvmifw i A3RDRY£8K!ST3mEa ' Npkkmitokik wvvitwnw cwpsr-poTi- Be This is the Season's most Popular Inexpensive Gift Item - and we've got ’em in many sizes '& styles Wwffit Itwm I vi T Twtittt - Bbslin ch o V- NiirStyltn - SWinCtfbn u 22i0 aifrimttli 60FFES s - Tv -- is Here we are the whole Barnes family sitting for our formal (?) portrait under the soaring arcs of Double Arch In the Windows Section of Arches National Park Rarely do ail three of us appear in the same picture but we thought this was an appropriate setting for a canyonlands holiday portrait We wish all of you a happy anu prosperous 1975! 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