Arizona republican., 1916-10-23
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"Seeing California Through a Windshield" Will Short ly Be Shown Here Depict ing Natures Wonders in Great Yosemite Park.

The terrors attendant upon long distant touring in the wilds of the back country are now things of the past: Ten years ago it was all the style 10 start out from the home town in fine 'haymotor" and slow ly make a hard way over the hills and the wales until some place like the Yosemite or the Sequoia was reached. An all summers job it was in the days of yore. All this has been changed by the simple means of gasoline and rubber. Wonderful strides have been made in automo- bile construction. with the result that all the wonder places of d great coun- try are now to be seen with only a few days or at the most, a few week $ travel.
 Since the Yosemite has been thrown open to motor travel, the park has been crowded by all kinds of ma chimes, but there are still q few places where the honk of the horn has been but little heard. There is still an other feature concerning the camping and outing pastime that has not been properly exploited. and that is how and wEere to camp in the open coun- try. In most places those going out for week or more start with sev- erll hundred pounds of baggage an1 a lot of buckets and other things. which are really not needed at all and only for being dusty might never have been out of the shop.
 In talking over this sort of thing. Bob PaulsOn. the famous outing and canning expert of the B. II. Dyas Company, went on record that most all trips were made with sixty five per cent too much stuff. In order to exploit the back country from motor 0ar and to show the proper way in which to handle q camping outfit Owen R. Bird. advertising manager Of the Oldsmohile Company. of Califor- uia. put the "Olds Scout" into the service and Paulson got up a com rlete camping outfit including all the rccessary adjuncts inside of 195 pounds. In order to give everybody a chance to have a look at the country md see how the camps should be pitched, Harold Ostrom. now of the Oldsmohile Company. and. formerly with the New York Motion Picture Company. was taken along to film the trip. The fourth member of the party vas Pill Rice technical representa- tive of tte OIds Motor Works. of Lansing. Michigan.
 Paulson carefully mapped out q t-in that could cover an even two tF7us9nd miles and in so doing show Hil the most beautiful places in the Sierra Nevada noun ains. portions c' the coast rorte and also the wild drearv hut bleak Crandness Of the greet MoisVe desert
 The first part of the route lay over tho Pifpa rrtt4o frp,,, I .g (. Bakersfield from there to Delann where the road turns east through Porteryille. Exeter and T.emoncove or the way tO the Three Rivers canyon which canyon ends in the Seduoia rational park. Of course the road q, far as POrtervillc was excellent. but after leaving this little citv the was led over the grit and the dirt From Lemoncove to the little hamlet ot 1 Three Rivers the road is very beau. tiful and offers many splendid chanc es for fishing and camping. and | might be added that there is no much of this done here and that sec ! ton Of the country is not very wei known ss a fishing ground
 On leaving Three Rivers. there l. ! some climb: twenty eight miles ant l almost straight up. Judge for your | eclf what it means to jump from s0' 1 feet to S.100 in this distance Tn. ! road is rough and full of very sharl i turns. but the Olds Scout did not re ! 4uire any adjustment and made tn ! trin in second gear. something tfa only a few cars have been able to dc i low heinz generally used over at leas { twelve miles of the road.
 The scenery in the SeGuoia is won aerful and there are not enough word in the English language to fittingly de ] scribe 1t, suffice # to say that her ] nature has erected mighty woode temple where all life may worshi tho Maker
 Leaving the Sequoia carly in th morning the Wa,- vas set for Gen cral Grants national park. The old was driven to the second home q the forest giants by the way of th Dry Creek canyon. 1t cannot be call
 cd much of road. being but littl
 lsed hy any sort of traffic. but it passible and saves at least thirty fiv
 miles which distance amounts {
 something when travelling in the bac
 country.
 On arriving at the town of Padge
 the going becomes better althoug
 the reads are dusty. The grade
 into Grants national park are yer | good and can be made without an
 +rouble. The Oldsmobilc party al
 rived on Sunday Snd found two hrr
 dred automobiles parked among tl
 big trees.
 From Grants to the Pines the wa
 'ay through Fresno. via Dunlay an
 'hen over the Bass Lake road to il
 Pines. This resort is situated on Il
 eastern bank of Bass Lake. There
 "lerty Of fishing and hunting to l
 had. and besides one cap find
 treat deal nf pleasure in the boatin
 and swimming
 After a very delightful stay u
 Scout crew pulled ont for the Man
 mouth Trail This road has not bee