my head, I felt that I was in an abstract cathedral of carefully sculpted flowing forms. I yelled, loud and sharp and for six seconds the canyon rang, reverberating like a bell. As the sound got softer it got higher pitched, until it seemed to become both inaudibly soft and inaudibly high at the same time. Tom has since moved to Boulder, and he tells me that Coyote Creek is not unusual, that the canyons of the Escalante River are filled with bridges and sculptured walls defying description. And from what I've read, by the standards of Glen Canyon, Coyote Creek is not at all extraordinary. I find this beyond imagination. That one sculpted corner on Coyote Creek is certainly one of the most magnificent things I've ever seen. It may be that Glen Canyon is lost but I am convinced that all remaining side canyons are the loveliest things left in this world. From that point on the canyon got progressively less deep, but remained beautiful. Keeping to our left, we lunched by a bare trickle beneath walls only one or two hundred feet high. Soon after that, the water disappeared and we were in a sandy wash. After a seemingly interminable six miles up the washes, hot, dusty, and dry with the sun beating down on us after so many days in the canyon bottom, I saw a short wooden sign. I knew it was the road. The question was, where was the car? I hurried to the sign which read "Hurricane Wash", and sure enough, when I turned around there was Chuck's car waiting for us on the hill. We managed to pack the three of us and our peeks into the MG and drove to Escalante for dinner and after that to Boulder for a warm night of telling stories and readjusting to civilization. It had been a fine trip and if there weren't so many other beautiful places in this world, I could scarcely wait to get back.

NEWS

RESOLUTIONS: The following are among the resolutions adopted by the Sierra Club BOD at its quarterly meeting in Washington D.C. in September. Motorized boats in the Grand Canyon: The Sierra Club reaffirms its policy opposing the use of motorized boats in the Grand Canyon and also urges a halt to the use of any internal combustion engines within the canyon. The Sierra Club opposes further funding or development of the Central Arizona and Central Utah Projects and urges a comprehensive reevaluation of them be made by independent, qualified and disinterested experts. California Desert Protections and Planning: The Sierra Club endorses legislation to protect and preserve the California desert, by giving the BLM sufficient funding end authority to prepare detailed land use plans and provide necessary administrative and enforcement personnel. ARCHES NATIONAL PARK APPROVED: The Senate agreed to House amendments to S. 30, to establish Arches National Park in Utah, thus clearing the measure for the White House. The new park unit will include about 73000 acres carved cut of the former 82000 acre National Monument. The bill requires a study of potential wilderness areas and recommendations to Congress within three years. GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS, CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARKS: The NPS held hearing last month in Carlsbad, NM, and El Paso, Texas respectively, on its wilderness proposals for those parks. Located along the Guadalupe Escarpment, one of the world's largest limestone barrier reefs the parks uplands rise gradually to the summit of Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas. Desert vegetation grades into juniper and, pinyon pine and a relic coniferous forest is found in the bowl in Guadalupe Mountains N.P. Deep canyons cut the plateau in a number of places and 200 or more caves, including the famous Carlsbad Caverns, are found in the reef. The two parks are separated by

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