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Show i Humphrey Says Skyline Drivels Most Beautiful Flcwe.s eJcng U. ill's famous drive new i.. their ha.ght of beauty, e.ccording to J. W. Humphrey supervisor super-visor cf the Manti national forest, ho r- turned Sunday from a trip e.r much of the drive. Th's drive xtsncis for neariy 100 miles along or n ear the summit of Uie mountains lo the eoi. t of Thistle, Sa,ipete and Sexier valleys and passes through iive.s of tv-ry color. Tha road is now u. excellent con-di. con-di. on, Mr. Humphrey slates, with good grade, for auiomoo:lc travel. Like cth-r mountain roods, it is unsafe un-safe Icr travel during or immediately immediate-ly after a lain, but is seldom, if ever, in a dangerous condition for mere than a fov hours at a time during tlio summer and autumn months. Starts Frcm iNo. 50 The driv. takes off from highway 50 at old Tucker, about 13 miles eis; of Thftle, and comes on top of the nr-euntain about three miles from this point. It is about 26 miles from Tuck, r to the Fairveiw-Huntington ivad, the first automobile road leading lead-ing into eiehor Sanpete or Castle vail y after leaving Tucker. This p.rticn cf the drive has an average elevation of about 9000 feet a favorite fav-orite altitude for the wild mountain flew-. is. A detour from th? skyline drive prep r must be made at the summit sum-mit oast cf Fairveiw, southeast to the CCC camp at Beaver Dams and then over tha splendid mountain read around the head cf Bulger and through tha Millers Flat country to Lower Joe's valley, a trip cf about 32 mile.a. From here tha Ephraim-Orarg'erille Ephraim-Orarg'erille road is follcwid for a-bout a-bout 16 miles to the top of the mountain. moun-tain. Work on computing the section sec-tion cf the drive beweien the Fair-view-Hunt ngtcn and Ephraim-Or-angeville roads is now under way and should be? completed within a month, maki-g ui'inecerary the descent de-scent into Joe's valley. This new reietiem already is completed 10 miles north of wheiv the Ephraim-Or-angcvillo' road crosses the summit. Altitude Above 10,000 F.om this : ummit en sefuth for 15 mirs the drive is never under the 10,000 foot altitude and the average ehvat cn is from 10,500 to 10.800 f, let. There are several points along this si ctioei from which one can see mountains in all parts of Utah and senv in Ncvede and Colorado. Descent uitoi Sanpete valley can b? mad' over the Ephraim -Orange-villeroad, the Faii-vicw-Huntington road, or the Manti or Mayfield canyon can-yon reads. Castle valley oan be l-eiacbl d by cither of the fir-t two roe,d:s. It is also posible to reach the Salina canyon load by travelir.i over rougher and htUe-u.td mour-tain mour-tain roads to the soutn of the Skyline Sky-line drive. Mr. Humphr-y states he has n'ver seten the mountains and mountain roads in such-pool condition condi-tion as this year. |