OCR Text |
Show Cedar Explorer Scouts Thrill to Adventure I "A real man-size adventure," I according to Don Knight, Cedar City. Knight has just led a group of seven Explorer Scouts on a 130-mile run down the Colorado Col-orado River. 'The water was running unusually unus-ually high." said Knight "and it smoothed out a few of the really real-ly rough spots, but left enough thrills to make it plenty inter-! esting." The Cedar group members of Post 2342 in the Fifth LDS Ward, were one boat crew of six making mak-ing the venture. They put their large rubber rafts on the river at a spot four miles upstream from Hite, Utah and ran a torturous tor-turous course to the historic Crossing of the Fathers. The entire trip took five days of river riv-er travel and took two days of camping and hiking. Places of interest visited by the boys included the two and one-half mile hike to the top of the Hole-ln-the-Rock where they heard the story of this famous event. They stopped at cavernous cavern-ous Music Temple and hiked 12 miles to Rainbow Natural Bridge. At the final camping place they traced the faint outlines of steps carved in stone by Father Escal-ante Escal-ante and his group that first traveled the barren south eastern east-ern Utah area In 1776. They also treked part of the Jacob Hamblin trail. Activities Included fishing and swimming. It was pointed out to the group that the next two years or so will see the end of this experience because the Glen Canyon Dam will back up a lake nearly 180 miles upstream covering cov-ering much of the area they ad seen. The boys were: Steven Adams, Ramon Prestwich, Donald Carter, Max Gardner, Michael Simkins, Donnie Knight and Kay Hey-wood. |