Show MOST WONDERFUL TOUR IN SO SAYS BARNSON DECOU SPECIAL representative jf F THE BUICK BULLETIN IN WRITING ABOUT SOUTHE SOUTHERN RN SCENIC LOOP iron county record having visited all the older na dional parks and scenic marvels of the west on previous occasions 1 I 1 arranged last summer to tour the little known wonderland of southern uth in search of pictures and anater material ial with which to illustrate my new I 1 had heard beard of the new zion national park and of course of the north rim of the grand canyon with its sur viewpoints but cedar breaks and bryce canyon were only names to me our party started the tour at lund utah early in august on salt lake route of the union pacific railway and a drive of thirty four miles over a perfect new highway brought us to cedar city where we arranged with parry brothers who have the national park parit transportation concession fo for r the comp complete leti eight day tour to the north rim after years of experience these boys have settled down to an all buick buick equipment for their trips and I 1 was glad to be able to test the famous car on my first long tour in it especially under such unusual conditions condition in both desert sands and mountains we tested it the very next day our first trip was only twenty five miles in distance from cedar city but in that length of road we climbed up through cedr cedar canyon and then on a new dugout dug out type of mountain road to in as altitude of feet from the mere mile height of cedar city the day was cloudy and I 1 was surprised to learn that this was the rainy season in this basin the road ended some two miles short of cedar breaks rim but we went on up the alpine meadow with no difficulty whatever daiv driving ing i 1 the the care tight light to the rim the sun came out momentarily i just in time for a single picture of this amphitheatre scooped out of the mountain crest and broken away on the lower side revealing a thrilling sweep of wild country for miles A thousand feet below us were grotesque pinnacles eroded hom nom the red and yellow formation in a most bewildering wilde ing array As we watched the sky blackened horribly and the heavens seemed to break asunder and empty their floods in blacker sheets of water we watched the glorious spectacle nearly an hour snugly ensconced in our car since the downpour had bad long since since overtaken us the maj majesty e s ty of this cloudburst above the gigantic painted bowl of the breaks was such as to ab absorb our minds completely we never thought of that twenty five miles of return trip over mountain road through Par parowan oNvan and to panguitch curiously named mormon villages far away from the railroad and on to bryce canyon bryce canyon is not a canyon at all but a bonbon bowl filled with most gloriously colored and carved candy creations the intricate fret work of oc changing hanging colored towers turrets and columns was directly below where we stood while we could look across twenty miles of space to pink and white cliffs exactly as if we were at the grand grana canyon A point extended out in front of the permanent camp built on the rim and looking back on the other side toward the setting sun revealed a totally different effect exactly like licking tongues of flame fiame coming up from the center of the earth and lighted from below with a mysterious incandescence no wonder you can only aly think of of the flama Fla flames mc of 0 trades hades as you look over bryce in this direction the next morning we climbed down on a very verk narrow trail clinging to the soft clay and ash of the decomposed lime stones ties here an artist was very properly at work portraying the superb colors of these giant pinnacles thousands of upstanding turrets seemed to have been turned on a lathe merely tle erosion caused by a harder cap of rock at the tip breaking gradually here and there allowing water and frost to pene penetrate and carve out these minarets mina from bryce we traveled through the desert sheep country to kanab a little mormon village where we stayed overnight and were shown the dauab kanab creek running through the town a channel seventy five feet deep and seventy fiva yards wide the town clerk remembers forty years ago when there was a pole bridge across it with just a few poles and place where one could jump across easily two hundred miles of country where the hills are grazed so clean that there is nothing now to bol back the rain or keep back a cloudburst from kanab we saw a curious low black line which stretched complete ly y across the horizon here was our great kaibab plateau kaibab in indian means mountain lying down locally known as Buck buckskin slin mountain where president roosevelt hunted lions in 1913 and many others inducing zane gray have staged thrilling tales of adventure in in the hunt we ve climbed steadily for mile after mile reaching an altitude five thousand teet reet higher than kanab as we entered the finest remaining I 1 forest in our united states fifty miles in the square of virgin timbers imber mostly pines and aspens ashens through brough which a splendid surfaced road the best wild road in the world runs to the north rim of the grand canavon our one great remaining forest only untouched because it is two hundred miles from a railroad on in this thih side and guarded on the south hy by the grand canyon sl a mile deep is it any wonder that a great movement is on foot to preserve it forever as the presidents forest in royal forests abroad are the royal stag herds in ill ours are a aliv ive e today to day 1 ten thousand graceful dainty mule deer what a thrill to go out in the rim of the canyon ii at night at bright angel point and see the lights of el tovar tb thirteen arteen miles away across the mightiest chasms in this earth our north rim elevation is a thousand feet higher than the south the aleric whole I 1 plateau down hence e the drainage is much greater en cn the north side of the river and between our view point and the inner gorges gorge at the bottom of which is our invisible ibl colorado the ermion has carved out ont the great side canyons and the huge red temples like those of deva and brahma directly jn front of us f as welock south from bright angel point nineteen milts of trail lead us down to the new suspension bridge and the one across 60 the colorado in miles the north rim itself with its far superior view viewpoints is as yet cani acm plemely undeveloped and almost bri unknown trails lead to such vast panoramic vistas as imperial point cape royal and point sublime and I 1 ultimately the national park service will wil I 1 beg pennies enough from our congress that has hardly yet awakened to the fact that we have in our own united states the supreme scenery of the world orld and that al I 1 the world should come touring over here instead of the usual reverse revere situation to construct motor road extensions to these grandest of canyon views leaving the rim very early in th thi 3 morning we counted deer until we 1 count as we vve sped through the glorious forest and the meadows which dotted it at fredonia arizona a little town miles from its county seat because of the intervening canyon barrier we wa turned north over the loneliest de desert ert road of all sand whirligigs exactly like waterspouts water spouts fascinated distant gaze as we watched wat cheri them four or five fi ve hundred feet high playing erratically about great layers lav of brilliant red cliffs the famous fanio us vermillion cliff rose directly from the level desert floor at pipe springs we encountered the only water in forty miles ly over the main spring was a lai ge stone house with loopholes established here by the latter day saints as A refuge for the women on whom the polygamy law sat bat heavily no enemy could cut off their water y after many hours of travel we saw looming up directly from the level evel plain a mighty temple of red and white rock which mr parry informed us was the great west temple of zion zi on canyon our destination the next day this was the he only disagreeable tide ride of the trip towards evening we traveled through brough weird lava gorges and suddenly arrived at the very edge of ie famous hurricane fault with he green fields of dixie bixie spread luxuriously for acres a thou ind feet below us another big climb the next day brought vs rs up tip the rio virgin and we approached a our newest national att brigham young yoi ing inspected the region in the fifties and selected t as a possible retreat in case of further persecution of his pioneer flock he called it little zion and zion it remains today with old testament names applied here and there to the great rocks the three patriarchs temple of the virgin and many others P As we drove farther up into the I 1 canyon the walts walls narrower narrowed owea and seemed to loom higher they are of bright red sandstone for two thirds of the way ay up capped by b white while limestone above for another thousand feet like yosemite in color chloi you bear yes but wilder wider im measure ably lacking the gentle beauty which makes m akes thi the yosemite yos ml ite the louliest lov lovi liest iest of valleys here are jagged splintered rocks almost as bagh robed in brilliant crimson and it is just a b indred hundred t miles from zion back to lund our railroad starting point a delightfully easy days run I 1 returned to civilization with some two hundred new pictures I 1 of what il to me the unique 1 and varied motor m ator trip i in A alenci t n abe he beauty of its s scenery cen ry I 1 |