| Show Zion Beauties Still Unknown Salt Lake take Tribune Tribunes It has has taken nearly three years with pack horse e and climbing rope for Chauncy G. G Parry to reach new wonder wonder wonder won won- der spots in Zion national park t that at athe he discovered In one hours hour's exploration exploration tion by airplane And this year Parry who is m one of ot the principal explorers of ot the lesser known portions of the new and unusual southern Utah park expects to reach the last of the objective objective objective ob ob- points he found Cound so easily from the air The use of the airplane in helping to o open n the inner beauties of oC the wonderland to travelers is a striking staking example of ot the ease and practicability of exploration n from from the air It shows a startling contrast with the ordinary overland method of discovery For it took Parry four weeks with a pack train to explore one beautiful hidden valley over which he had previously flown in four minutes and other trips have taken proportionate lonate time Up to the past few Cew years comparatively comparatively comparatively little had been known of the inner portions of ot the Zion national park region beyond the confines of the great multicolored chasm which gives it its name Previous discoverers discover discover- ers Parry among them had been handi handicapped by lack of ot definitely known objectives and possible routes They continually found Cound themselves in gorges up against the dead ends of ot gigantic box bax canyons and cliffs It was WOl shortly before the war that Parry first thought of the possibility of flying over the indescribably region and then following up the discoveries discoveries discoveries dis dis- made from the air all With this in mind when he enlisted for Cor the war he entered the air service gaining gain ing a commission It was wa's was some years after the war before before be be- fore Parry found anyone willing to risk a plane over the region The nearest landing places were thirty odd miles mites away and a forced landing amid the half mile half mile deep chasms of the park or on top of one of the isolated and unreachable islands in the air formed by the tops of the gigantic monolithic pinnacles between them would spell disaster When the aerial expedition was finally flights were made over the triplet attractions of the Utah wonderland Zion Bryce can can- yin yn Cedar Breaks and the region between them Huge hanging valleys of weird beauty were seen for the first time by the eye of man Canyons grotesquely carved and even more wonderfully colored than now seen by the traveler to Zion were located and routes to many heretofore inaccessible inaccessible inac inac- points spotted From the Zion region Parry continued down over the Kaibab forest and unheralded unheralded aIded made the first distance flight down through the lower gorges of ot the Grand canyon On his return he commenced com corn i the task of traversing the i routes and reaching the points he had located from above It has occupied most of his spare time in the years since and will contribute materially toward the work of making more and more of the amazing region ble to the traveling thousands |
