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Show Snowmobile 'Press Tour9 Headed For Panguitch Lake This Week PANGUITCH LAKE - Winter sports aqtlYitiesJ.will,b4,highliiih,ted ag , nev before in Garfield County with the arrival next week of an entourage of state and national news media personnel at Deer Trail Lodge, adjacent to Panguitch Lake. The event will mark over a full year's work to bring together representatives of snowmobile magazines, outdoor sports writers, radio commentators, newspaper editors and other travel oriented individuals curious about winter sports activities in the southern end of the state. The group is slated for a week long snowmobile trek beginning Monday, February 15, in Salt, Lake City and culminating the following weekend in Garfield County. During the week they will be hosted by various commercial hotels and retaurants as well as travel agencies in each of the areas they are exploring. Departing Salt Lake City the group will travel by snowmobile each day, going down through Spanish Fork Canyon, Provo taking routes through several national forests and recreation areas. They will tour through the Manti-LaSal National Forest and Fishlake area to Salina, On Friday they will travel through Bryce Canyon arriving Friday evening at Deer Trail Lodge. Numerous Garfield County travel and tourist-oriented individuals have been extended invitations to attend a dinner hosted that evening by Color Country Advertising Council and activities the following day at Duck Creek Village, Meadowview Lodge and Brianhead Ski Resort areas at Cedar Breaks. If participation in all areas of winter activities is as active as the past few weekends at Panguitch Lake and Brianhead local resort owners indicate, they will be pleased with the outcome of the complex travel tour. Snowmobiling, ice fishing and skiing are noting a . remarkable increase. I-ooklng at the entire winter scene will be a snowmobiling tour group of press people from all aspects of the news media. |