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Show Even dogs carried own gear as the Escalante fourth and fifth graders spent two days on a hiking trip. Shown are Ronnie Hurst with dog, Reka, Dirk Durfey and Carl Birkemeyer. On ESCALANTE The fifth and sixth grade students at Escalante Elementary school felt the cool wind, smelled the aroma of the great outdoors and saw the beauty of creation as they expereinced two days of back packing last Friday and Saturday. They went on an overnight back-packing trip through the Escalante River Drainage and hiked six miles that day to Death Hollow where they slept the first night, The students were split into five different groups, each had to do their own cooking, wash their own dishes, see about their beds, and clean their own camping areas. All trash was packed out. Dehydrated food was eaten for four meals with cheese, crackers, nuts, raisins and candy bars being the menu for the two meals they did not cook. The next morning they hiked seven more miles to the Escalante River Bridge where a school bus awaited to take them home Saturday evening. The trip was taken to enhance their learning in nutrition, water and air, pollution, the back are Shelly Dumas, experienced backpacker, helping Stephanie Shurtz adjust pack. Escalante Students Get First Hand Nature Look physical fitness, life activities, ecology and first aid in science and health. Experienced back-packers supervised the trip along with Sharon Dale Marsh and Hal R. Shurtz as supervising teachers. Back-packers assisting were Mr. and Mrs. Millard Dumas of the Forest Service and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Wells of the Bureau of Land Management. |