Show SCENIC playgrounds OF AMERICA by 0 ill KILBOURN Cat catching clAng sylvan pass in her easter hat I 1 I 1 TF F YOU fou want the surprise of your life sometime try a yellowstone park trip to in june before the mountains rune have had time to wake from their winter sleep to the snow jewels away and it if you want some action thrills with your lour surprises mii go in the eastern etsfern gateway because that Is the sylvan pass route th the e route route where the glistening easter finery briery of the forests and high meadows 0 we lasts longest yellowstone park opens annually 0 on a the twentieth of june it offers a hundred different charms in sued prof profusion 1 on that to pick a weakness mong among them seems almost sacrilege and ad yet there are one or two such weaknesses it if we way may borrow the viewpoints of the average american who makes a hurried rail or motor pilgrimage to the garden where Moth er nature on viewing her complete work must surely have exclaimed hot stuff I 1 ain in supreme sad satisfaction s f ac tion the ne average american who goes goe sightseeing to in the national parks 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 blit tile the psychological opposite of heat of course Is lee ice and snow and whatever else yellowstone in may and does offer its july and august snow displays are a bit meager but to the traveler who slyly sails westward when tits his calendar rends reads june two thirds there Is an ama Z bigly different story revealed sylvan silvan p pass ss which became the eastern boundary of the park last year in a revision which gave the reservation a completely new profile on the map Is still dreaming of santa claus and his reindeer and your our big bus to reach the mountaintop gateway must wiggle eel like ilke through rod after rod of squirming snow tun tunnel tiel or if youre youra driving your own car ue be sure not to have a flat because it might be three weeks before you could drive off the road and repair coincidence alone sent the writer water chugging through the park in 1027 on the day after its opening for tho season eason and although lie he had thoroughly enjoyed three previous ana less hurried visits the snow trip was a delight and a revelation on top of the pass where early melting had soaked both road and meadows into a loblolly government teanis teams pulled each car through the he sea of mud as mechanically and ignominiously as if these hese gas breathing but park loving lovley J V ze S IA ka tk 1 VV A 1 al ail V Z J Z n A snow tunnel steeds had been mere mercenary merchantman merchantmen merchant men abug in the panama cana canal I 1 and this amazing bewitching in maiden aide n ju just s t ahead why jumping me thusa lehs lebs its only your old pal miss sylvan lakel lake I 1 with all those sunday clothes well have dreamed sh had bad such class down the slope the sun has done its work before you and the park resumes its usual look except that the elk and moose are much nearer and r than they will be a month later after facing the first cameras but son you turn south to 16 give lake camp the on ceover again und and Gee that now its yellowstone lake as usual on tile the bottom but what a picture frame around the old lady this timet time I 1 the whole range Is in on the sa its the damnedest darn edest halo you ever heard tell of and she wears it just like it grow grew there too tool I 1 ah boy after a sight like that you could whistle in an alum factory or throw red ink at the alki mahal a E 1930 2930 western N dav UI union |