Show SCENIC playgrounds OF AMERICA by G 0 at catching catchi ng sylvan pass in her easter hatt hat IF TF YOU want the surprise of your life sometime try a yellowstone Tellow stona park trip in ID june before the mountain have had time to wake from their winter steep sleep to shake the snow jewels away and it if you want some borne action thrills with your surprises go in the eastern or cody ga gateway teNay because that Is the sylvan pass route tho the route where the glistening easter finery of the forests and high meadows lasts longest yellowstone park opens annually on the twentieth of june it offers a hundred different charms in cucil sucil PU profusion that to pick a wei weakness diness among them hem seems almost sacrilege and yet there are one or two such weaknesses it if we may borrow the viewpoints of the average american Ameil can who makes a hurried rail or motor pilgrimage to tile tho garden gaiden where here mother molher nature on viewing her completed complete rf work must surely have exclaimed hot stuffily stuff ill 1 in supreme satisfaction the tha average american who goes goe sightseeing in the national parks I 1 Is on a brief usually an all too brief vacation from two environments work and summer heat the trip alone Is a wonderful antidote for work but the psychology psycho psychological log cal opposite of heat of course Is lea ice and snow and whatever else yellowstone may and does offer its july and august snow displays are a bit meager but bat to the traveler who slyly sails westward when his calendar reads june two thirds there Is an amazingly different story revealed sylvan pass which became tile the eastern boundary of the park last year in a revision which gave the reservation a completely new profile on the map la Is still dreaming of santa claus clans and hla his reindeer and your big bus to reach the mountaintop gateway must wiggle eel like ilke through rod after rod of squirming snow tunnel or it if youre you I 1 re driving your own car be sure not dot to have a flat because it might be three weeks before you could drive ot off the road and repair it I 1 coincidence alone sent the writer chugging through the park in 1927 on the day after its opening for the season and although he had thoroughly enjoyed three pre precious Ious and ancl less hurried visits the snow trip was a delight and a revelation on top lots of the pass where early melting had soaked both road and meadows into a loblolly government teams pulled one each h c car ar through the sea of mud as mechanically and I 1 Y a as s if these gas breathing but park lovley 5 1 I 1 Z Z J tc ea R A 1 1 1 A J I 1 A A snow tunnel steeds had been mere mercenary to the panama canal and tills this amazing bewitching m maiden just ahead chy jumping me its only your old pul it miss sylvan lake with nil all those sunday clothes well liae have dreamed she had such class down the like slope the sun lins has done its work before sou and the park resumes its usual look fook except that the elk arid moose are much nearer and r thau they be a month later after facing the first cani cam eras but son you turn south to give ghe lake camp the once on ceover oer agala and Uee Gee flats that now its yellowstone lake as usual on the bottom but bhat a picture frame around the old lady this aimel the whole ranse range Is in on the fram eup its the damnedest dam darn edest halo lialo you ever heard beard tell of and she wears it just like it grew there ton oh hoy boy after a sight ilke that you could I 1 in fin an alum fat factory or throw red ink at the to mahal CE 1030 western union 1 |