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Show the Cedar Breaks District of. ficiaU. is available. A "trailmaster" stripe is also available for those who have taken the hike., then lead or direct a group over the trail. Although new, the hike is nevertheless designed for early ear-ly spring or late fall owing to the extremely hot condition during the summer months. Scouts hope that this fall a number of groups will take the opportunity to make the hike which traveses an area that once was an Indian ceremonial cere-monial campground and which abounds in petroglyph-. ics. Complete details of the' new hike can be obtained through VV " s i NEW HIKE. Troop 341 under the direction di-rection of Tom Challis, Scoutmaster and Quinn Chamberlain, troop committee com-mittee chairman, was the "pilot" troop to take this hike. They, tested the directions and the hiking plan. Twenty-two scouts participated and spent two days on the trail and canoed ca-noed one night at the famous "Peter's Leap." "Black nidge Historic Trail Hike"! now available to area Doy Scouts Trail Hike", and an initial group of scouts from Troop 347 in Cedar City was the pilot group to make the hike. : The hike was established for the purpose of encouraging encourag-ing boy scouts and explorers to gain a greater appreciation of the pioneer . heritage by hiking the early pioneer roads south of Cedar City. The hike is to be known as the "Black Ridge ' Historic ' ,'1 , ;. .; , '.( . .. A new ' kind of hike has been added to the list ot those available t to scouting groups in the Cedar Breaks District, Boy Scouts of America. , The trail is located at the Ridge about 22 miles south of Cedar City. Historically very few wagons were taken over the Black Ridge by the first .settlers because they were broken to pieces by the rough terrain. The first wagon wag-on over the Ridge was not made until 1856, four years after Harmony was settled. The hike follows what was the main, and only road, over the Black Ridge between 1857 and 1862 and passes what is known' as "Peter's Leap," so named when the " original builder of the road, Peter Shirts suggested, jokingly that they "leap it," when asked how he proposed to get across. Groups may hike the trail in either direction,- from Ash Creek Dam to Pintura and to the Harmony area, or from Harmony area south to Pin-tur'a Pin-tur'a and Ash Creek Dam. Which either way the groups plan to make the trip at least one night should be spent on the trail. For those planning to make the hike, and who properly register for the trip, a patch depicting these pioneer routes |
