Show mountain scenery unsurpassed deseret gymnasium mountain climbing club enjoy our mountains of trip and scenic views to be published the following from the pen of F P C van buren concerning concer nm the trip made by the S salt alit lake cita hikers last week n is of interest to every reader of the times parowan carowan Pa rowan july 17 1917 editor r times it seldom happens that a crowd of plea pleasure seekers enjoy strip through the man mountains more than the mem ars of the deseret gymnasium mountain climbing I 1 club emited emoted their trip I 1 last eat week the program in was 3 carried out exactly as planned the weather was waa almost at perfect and few t things h ings hap bened to interfere in n any way with the enjoy enjoyment men I 1 of the company the men had alt all the fish the could eat and although no record catch catches were made enough were caught to supply ply every meal T the he fi first night out of farolan parowan we be camped at panguitch lake the next in orning morning we enjoyed 3 hours birdin in center creek visited the deer ps pens nas and indian graves then went to the blue springs for our second camp the fishing was even better in deer cre creek k and hunker bunker creek than it had been in center creek we caught enough JU fish to 1 aft t th the e r re bainder of the trip the third night we arrived at the peerless saw mill where we were onre met by some of our loyal friends from par carowan parowan 0 sun who had previously arranged to meet us with horses and saddles and take a 5 ride with us to cedar breaks and duck lake friday afternoon was spent in getting riding outfits in shape some of the horses could not b found and others had to be made ready by noon all was ready and we started first we visited the breaks then went to duck lake our crowd by this time had grown to thirteen in number and all were anxious to make the best of the trip the men who joined us from par owan were mr day mr taylor mr pendleton ur mr dalton and mr me mitchell all of these men went out of their way to show the salt lakers a good time some of the crowd had never been on a hore hone before but they were sports enough to stay with the twenty mile rule ride through th rough all 11 the physical a and t the h jokes arid and good natured banter of the crowd the last day of the trip we climb ed hancock peak and monument point and although it rained during tire the latter trip the men etere ere anxious to 6 get all they could in the way say of sight seeing foring sume some of the members of the corn cont pany have hai been to grand canyon to national park paik and some to the garden of the gods god a b but ut al all I 1 w ere en in broel timing liming the feenery in our mountains unsurpassed Diol fed the interest and concern taken by the people here vas nos c constantly tartly talked of and appreciated and the men went back to salt lake debet mined to make an annual event of teed th this a tr trip P and vowed to come again one of the members of the company who he happens hap perer to be also isa member of the press club of utah was selee ted to assemble the pictures tures taken and look after the newspaper re port of the trip so that the bubli city part of it might dallas not be slighted before I 1 close I 1 must take this chance of thanking my friends in Par carowan parowan oivan for the interest they have shown show I 1 regret very much that we deap pointed those who prepared the ban we also were disappointed not to mention my personal feelings when we thought everything arranged in salt lake toof our ment mem hers beis who were to come and bring cars with them were called out of town and some had to be left we attempted to bring seven men with their baggage in one car and the load was waa too much I 1 tried personally for twenty four hours boom to replace them but could not succeed in one hundred and twenty six BIX phone calls I 1 was hunting for the sort of enthusiasm that clarence richards has lie he was kind enough to take his team and spend tile the week with us ua As I 1 see sea it there is always just a little difference between the ethu fa siam of country people and city people respectfully F C VAN BUREN |