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In 1992, Campfire Tales was called Trail Scout Report. The TSR was typed on a typewriter and copied. The cover was made using MS Publisher. There were no photos because at that time, copiers did not do well with photos.. We added photos to this on-line version to give it more life. Those photos are the same trail. Some were taken at a different time.
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THE MORMON TRAIL
Aka: San Juan Mission
aka: HOLE IN THE ROCK
It was great! Everyone in the group agreed this was the BEST
trip we have ever done!
It was definitely the most difficult trail Pass Patrol has
ever completed. Although we have crossed
more difficult sections of particular trails, (such as Pritchett Canyon and
Golden Spike) we have never traveled a trail that was so challenging from
beginning to end. It was the ultimate
experience for stock vehicles and modified vehicles alike, with sections for
both.
It was more than 100 years ago when a group of Mormons
consisting of sixty families began a journey across the Utah desert from
Escalante to Bluff. They expected a six
week journey and ended up on the trail for six months. Along the way they blasted a route across the
Colorado River that has since been referred to as “Hole In The Rock.” That was the easy part. From then on, must have been pure torture.
Passenger cars can reach Hole In The Rock from the west on a
gravel road across a section of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. From the East, it’s a lot more fun.
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