Show I I II MiST MAST TOUR IN AMERICA n BARNSON SON DECOU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE RE RE- i 1 OF THE BU RU ICE JCK BULLETIN WRITES ABOUT TRIP RIP TO CEDAR BREAKS BRYCE CANYON ZION CANYON AND ND THE GRAND CANYON GIVES VIVID DESCRIPTION O OF SCENIC sC SCENIC IC BEAUTIES SEEN IN I SOUTHERN UTAH'S GLORIOUS WONDERLAND T- T Having visited all aU the the older National Parks Parka and scenic marvels marvel occasions I of cf f the West on previous previous' t. t arranged last summer to tour the little known wonderland of southern Utah in search of ot pictures and material material material ma ma- with which to illustrate my new I had heard of oi the new Zion National Park and of I course of bf the North Rim of the Grand Canyon with its superior viewpoints view view- points joints but Cedar Breaks and Bryce Canyon were only names I to me Our party started the tout tour a at t Lund Utah early in August on th the Salt Lake route of the Union Pad Pad- tic fie Railway and a drive of thirtyfour thirty thirty- lout jour miles over a perfect new highway highway highway high high- way brought us to Cedar City where we arranged with Parry Brothers who l o have the National P Park ark transportation trans concession for the complete complete complete com com- eight day tour to the he North Nort h Rim After years of experience these boys have settled down to a an n Buick all equipment for their trips and I 1 was was- was glad to to be able to test th the f famous ou icar caron m my first lon ngo tour r i in iniC a oj iC especially It uie BU I t n in both both desert sands an and d mountains W We tested it the ve very ury rY next day dav Our first trip was was was' only twenty twenty- five miles in distance distan e from twentY twentY-I Cedar City but in that length of road we climbed up through Cedar Canyon and then on a a new out dug-out type of mountain road to to an altitude of 10 10 5 feet from the the mere mere mile height of Cedar City The day was cloudy and I was surprised to learn that this was the rainy season season in this basin The road ended some two miles short of Cedar Breaks Rim but we wenton went wenton I on cn up the Alpine mea meadow ow with no difficulty whatever driving the car right to the rim The sun came out momentarily just in time for a single sing sing- le Ie picture of this remarkable amphitheater amphitheater amphitheater theater scooped out of the mountain crest and broken away on the lower I side revealing a thrilling sweep of wild country for miles A thousand feet below us were grotesque pinnacles les eroded from the red and yellow formation in a most bewildering arra ar ar- ra ray As we watched the sky blackened horribly and the the heavens seemed to break asunder and empty their floods in blacker sheets of water We watched watched watch watch- ed the glorious spectacle nearly an an hour snugly ensconced in our car since the downpour had long since overtaken o taken us The majesty of this this' 1 cloudburst above the gigantic painted paint paint- ed bowl of the Breaks Break was such asto as asto asto to absorb our minds completely W We e never ne thought of that twenty five e miles of return trip over mountain n road Through 1 Parowan and Parag Paragonah nah h to Panguitch curiously named Morman Mormon Mor mon man villages far away from the railroad and on to Bryce Canyon B Canyon is not a canyon a at atall atall t all but a bonbon bowl filled with wit I mst mast gloriously colored and carved carve d candy creations The intricate fretwork fret fret- work Q of changing colored towers tin 1 t ant columns columns' was Y below where we stood while we could soul d look across twenty miles of space spec e to pink and white cliffs exactly as asif asif if we were at the Grand Canyon A paint point a extended ded out in front of th the S l permanent camp built on the ri rim m and looking back on the other side aid e toward the selling sun revealed a i totally effect exactly lik like licking tongues of flame coming u up from the center of the earth an and d lighted from below below- with a mysterious s i i incandescence No wonder you can ca n i I only think of the Flames of Hades as you jou ou Ook look over Bryce in this date c I tion don The next morning we claimed down on a very narrow harrow trail clinging to the soft clay and ash of the decomposed decomposed decomposed posed He Here an a at st was very properly at work portray portraying portraying ing lag the superb colors of these giant pinnacles Thousands of upstanding turrets seemed to have been turned on a lathe merely the erosion cau caused ed by byl a harder tap cap ap of rock at the tip i breaking gradually here and there I all allowing wing water and frost to to penetrate pen pene penetrate pene- pene and carve carve out these minarets From Bryce we traveled through the desert sheep country t to Kanab a little Mormon village Ce w where ere we weIta Ita stayed oVe wife M were sh ah wn the Kanab Creek k running through the a a five feel d deep ep epand and seventy five r yards wide Th The town cl rk remembers remember forty years years' ago when en there ere wa wasa a a polebridge pole polebridge bridge across across' it with with just a few I poles and places where one could jump across easily Two hundred hundred miles mile of country where the hills are grazed so 10 clean that there is la nothing now to hold back the rainor rain rainor or keep back a cloudburst From Kanab we saw a curious low black line which Ich stretched completely complete complete- ly across across the horizon Here was ou our great Kaibab Plateau Kaibab i in n Indian means Mountain lying g down locally known as Buckskin n Mountain where Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt hunted bunted lions in 1913 and man many y others including Zane Gray have hav e staged thrilling tales of adventure in the hunt We climbed steadily for mile after mile reaching an altitude five thousand housand feet fees higher than Kanab Ka Ka- Kanab nab ab a as we e e m. k r e the finest remaining remain remal ing f forest rest in our United States flit fifty Y miles in the square of virgin timber mostly pines and aspens through h which I rod road th the best wild road mad in the world runs tuna to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon Our one great remaining forest only untouched because it is two hundred miles from a railroad on this th's side aide and guarded on the south I I 1 by the Grand Canyon a mile deep I I is s it any wonder that a great move movements ments meats in on foot to preserve it for forever for I ever as a. tl tile the e Presidents President Forest r rI I In royal forests abroad are the royals royal stag stag herds In ours are alive today ten thousand graceful dainty mule I deer What a thrill to go out in the rim of the canyon at night at Bright Dright Angel Point and see the lights of E El l 1 Tovar thirteen miles away ac acoss the mightiest chasms in this earth Our North Rim elevation is a thousand feet higher than the South the whole plateau sloping eloping down Hence the drainage is much on the north side of the river and between our viewpoint t and the inner gorge I at the bottom of of which is our invisible invisible invisible in- in 1 I visible Colorado the erosion has r carved out te to great sale sile canyons and the huge red temples like those of Deva and Brahma directly in front of us us as we look south from Bright Dright Angel Point Nineteen miles of trail lead us down to the new sus BUS I 1 pension bridge the only bridge across across across' I 1 I 1 the Colorado in miles I IThe I I The North Rim itself with its far I superior viewpoints is as yet comI completely com corn I undeveloped an and almost un- un I j known Trails lead to such vast panoramic vistas as Imperial Point Cape Royal and Point Sublime and andI I I ultimately the National Park Servi Service e eI I will beg pennies enough from ou our ourI r I congress that has yet hardly hardly yet awakened awakened awak awak- toned ened to the fact that we have in ou our r own United States the supreme scenery seen scene ery of the world and that all the e world should come came touring over her here o instead of the usual reverse altos situa- tion to construct motor road exten exten- I sons to these grandest of canyon views j r Leaving the rim very earl early in th the e morning we counted deer until w we e lost count as we sped through th the e I glorious forest lorest and the S meadows which dotted it At Fret Fre Fre- t Idonia donia Arizona a R little town mile 3 I from its count county seat scat because of th the e intervening Canyon harrier barrier we turn turn- I cd ed north over the loneliest desert ran r road ad adI d I of of all ell Sand whirligigs exactly lik like e waterspouts out our distant distan J gaze ze as we watched them four o or r five f hundred feet high playing er er- er u about Great layers laen of brilant bra bri- lant lent red re cliffs the famous r Cliff rose directly from the level desert floor At Pipe Pipe- Springs we encountered the only water in fort forty miles mies Squarely Square Square- l ly y over the main spring was a large stone atone house with loopholes established establish establish- e ed d here by the L Latter Day Bay Saints Sainta asa as asa asa a refuge for the women on whom the th t polygamy law sat eat heavily No enemy could cut off their water sup pi ply After many hours of travel we saw looming directly up from the level plain a mighty temple of red and white rock which Mr Parry informed inform inform- ed us was the Great West Temple of Zion Canyon our destination the next day This was the only disagreeable dis agreeable ride of the trip Towards evening we traveled through weird lava gorges and suddenly suddenly suddenly sud- sud denly arrived at the very edge of the famous Hurricane cane Fault with the green fileds of Utah's Dixie spread luxuriously for acres a thousand thousand thou thou- sand feet below us Another big big- climb the next day dayI brought us up the Rio Virgin and we approached our newest National Park Brigham Young inspected the region in the fifties and selected it itai a ai as a possible retreat in case of further furth furth- er persecution of his pioneer flock He called it Little Zion and Zion it it remains today with Old Testament names applied here and there they to the great rocks The rocks The Three Patriarchs Temple of the Virgin and many others As we drove farther up into the I canyon the walls narrowed and seemed to loom higher They are of blight bright red sandstone for lor two-thirds two of the way up capped by brilliant I white limestone ne above for another thousand feet Like Yosemite in color col col- or 01 you ou hear Yes but Jut wilder im tm measurably Lacking Lacking- Lacking the gentle e beauty which makes the Yosemite th the e loveliest of valleys valles here are jagged d splintered rocks almost as high robed rob ed in brilliant crimson and white A is fast jast a hundred miles fro from m Z Zion n back to Lund our railroad starting starting start start- ing point a delightfully easy days day's e s iun lIn I returned to civilization wit with h s same ame me two hundred new pictures o of f hat v is to me the m most mast st unique an and c d H eJ m motor tor trip in America in th the e 1 of its scenery |