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Show WINTER SPORTS IN OUR MOUNTAINS Rev. F G. Brainerd is a lover of mountain climbing and since his residence resi-dence in Ogden he has tramped over more miles of mountain scenery than any one person in the community, and, therefore he must be accepted as somewhat of an authority on the deep gorges and .high ridces to the east of Ogden He says that the Wasatch Wa-satch range particularly the mountain moun-tain Heights out of Ogden and Taylor' canyons is more majestic and lcau-tffully lcau-tffully inspiring in winter than in summer. On snowshoes Mr. Brainerd and other oth-er Ogdenites enjoy long journeys into the snow-covered hills, where the "beautiful" drifts 20 to 30 feet deep and where great overhanging rims form on the divides. They look forward for-ward to these winter outings with as much pleasure as does the stay-at-home welcome a spring da in the canyon. One day last week the mountain-climbers mountain-climbers equipped themselves with skis and came down from Malan's I Heights with the wind. That is sport j and just such winter sport as should J be more widely participated in There are places In the east where, in order to afford winter pastimes, the people build toboggan slides, but here, where nature has established mighty Inclines In-clines and where snow falls to great depth, no one other than a very few, seem to realize the joy In store for those who will get out in the hills. Our winter scenes, in canyon and on mountain top, and the possibilities of our winter snorts, snould be one of the advertised features of Ogden -oo |