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MOAB HAPPENINGS Volume 24 Number 9 DECEMBER 2012 come visit us at 225 s. main street YOUTH CLIMBInG & CanYOnEERInG ADULTS (under 16) YOUTH RIVER adVEntuREs ADULTS (under 16) ephedras grotto canyoneering $ $ full-day river adventure Excellent canyoneering intro gives you access to seldom ...... 99 ...... 84...... World-famous scenery and a barbecue lunch rafting the ...... $ $ seen canyons with exciting rappels! 4 hrs (min age: 10) 85 ...... 65 ...... Colorado River. 8:15am – 4:00pm (min age: 5) . desert rock climBing colorado river a.m. half-day Climbing, instruction, and fun on rope and rock! All $ $ ...... 99 ...... 84...... Raft the river from Fisher Towers to Rocky Rapid. $ $ equipment provided. 5 hrs (min age: 5) . ...... ...... 54 44 ...... 8:15am – 12:30pm (min age: 5) . high ropes course colorado river p.m. half-day Challenge course, safety gear & instruction, and Raft from Rocky Rapid to Takeout. 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YOUTH aRCHEs n.P. tOuRs ADULTS (under 16) Christmas Bird Count arches fiery furnace hike Dead Horse Point - December 15 Explore a maze of astounding hidden chasms with one $ $ Moab Bird Club - January 5 ......81 ...... 61 ...... of our guides on this unique hike . 7:15am – 12:30pm . arches sunset tour Relaxing park tour and easy walks at the perfect time of ...... $ ......$ ...... 71 . 48 . day in amazing red rock landscapes. (4 hrs) UTAH MOAB, MOAB, UTAH 84532 UTAH MOAB, PERMIT #39 PERMIT FREE COPY P.O. BOX 698 BOX P.O. U.S. POSTAGE PAID POSTAGE U.S. MOAB HAPPENINGS MOAB moabadventurecenter.com 435-259-7019 STD PRSRT www.moabhappenings.com Happenings-2012.indd 1 2/29/12 4:55 PM 2A • December 2012 • Moab Happenings www.moabhappenings.com MOAB HAPPENINGS MOAB HAPPENINGS© HOTEL "Moab Happenings" is published by Canyonlands Advertising Inc. of Moab, Utah and ROOM is provided free throughout the Moab area as a FOR SALE visitor information guide. 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Hwy. 191 7 days a week 435.259.5775 www.moabgym.com [email protected] www.moabhappenings.com Moab Happenings • December 2012 • 3A HIKING HAPPENINGS Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail – A Big Step Back In Time by Marcy Hafner If I could climb into a time machine and zoom back them, and over eons of time the bones transformed into further I stroll along this old mining road, which is now the 150 million years, I would be shocked to discover that the fossils. In more recent times water erosion dissected this well-traveled Monitor and Merrimac bike trail, the wetter it canyonland country where I live doesn’t exist anymore! desert area uncovering a lost world in the form of fossils. gets, until the water puddles up into pools that sometimes Instead I am hopelessly lost in a tropical rain forest of Allosaurus, a large, bipedal meat-eating dinosaur, was the spills over, and then the clear cool waters flow. With so much conifers, cycads and ginkgoes, which dominant predator in our area. The moisture I find myself traipsing through a bumper crop of shade an undergrowth consisting largely vegetarian, plant-eating dinosaurs were: taller-than-me rabbitbrush of ferns. Nothing looks familiar, and as Camarasaurus, who weighed in at 20 and sagebrush. I wander around in this alien world, I tons - the moderately sized, nimble-and- Pausing for a break, make certain I don’t lose sight of my fast Camptosaurs - and the odd looking I study the curvaceous time machine! Stegosaurus, characterized by a double flow of the canyon walls In this era referred to as the late row of large alternately spaced plates that sometimes erupt into Jurassic, I am incredulous to see that ran down its back ending with large jagged edges, and the dinosaurs roaming freely as they travel spikes at the tip of its tail. bright red rock sandstone over a soggy, featureless landscape On a breezy 20 degree morning that contrasts strongly dotted with lakes, criss-crossed by in late October, as I anxiously wait against the melancholy sluggish rivers and saturated with for the sun to rise, I am glancing over blue sky. In the moments of golden silence, I tune in to a swamps and bogs filled with horsetails the comments in the trail register. “A noisy, hyperactive Bewick’s wren hopping from branch to and succulent plants. Even though I fantastic place for six to eight year old branch and the murmured twitters of a small gathering of am fascinated with this foreign, long ago capsule of time, I kids,” is right on, but I would add that it is also a fantastic juncos. can’t help feeling hopelessly out of place in an environment place for anyone who is curious about the natural history Days are short now of unaccustomed humidity and strange