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Following A Wilderness Trail If you have been a reader of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS for any length of time, you will have traveled to many strange, distant and interesting places through our pages. This month, for the first time, we take you on a visit to Chevelon Creek, a new experience for us and, we hope, for you, too. Chevelon Creek is born high on the Mogollon Rim, not too far from Payson, and after seventy slow and winding miles joins the Little Colorado near Winslow. It isn’t a big creek as creeks go, but it embraces some wild, rough, remote and truly spectacular country. A trip to Chevelon is not tailored for the comfortable ease of the “Sunday” driver. The hardy ones, though, and those who cherish and seek out the too rapidly diminishing “out-of-the-way” places will find Chevelon not only a rewarding but an exhilarating adventure. In another feature we present, in all his dignity and might, the buffalo. Once the proud monarch of the plains, the buffalo is now found on carefully preserved game refuges, of which Arizona has two. When the Olympic Games are held in Tokyo in October, we predict Phoenicians will be much in evidence in the women’s diving events. Their coach will be Dick Smith, a dedicated man to whom physical fitness is a religion. In our feature, Pool of Champions, we tell you why. And in another feature we hope to please the air?borne travelers. Cloudscapes, as seen from a height of thirty thousand feet, are the loveliest of Nature’s crea?tions. .. R.C.
