Bear Lake Vacation: Green Canyon

On Friday it was to chilly to go swimming so Grandpa Roger took us for a historical drive up Green Canyon. The whole way up we got to hear stories of Grandpa's childhood and Young adult years in that canyon. We heard about hunting trips, fishing with their bare hands, bears in their camp and hauling logs down to build the school house. We heard about stays at the old saw mill and stories of the true blue boys (a group of boys that rebuilt a spring and other helpful things. The church heard of the group and later started a program reassembling theirs called the Trail Blazers)

First we stopped at Crystal Hill where you can find shinny crystals all over. The kids loved following grandpa around looking for them. Maddie ended up with a small baggie full.
Garen only found one crystal. He fell and was crying then realized he was sitting on one-

Maddie had to bring her binoculars with-

Searching for crystals with Grandpa-

Maddie fell asleep on the ride home after all that running around and crystal finding-

We stopped at the Pat Hollow Crash Site. This is where a plane of 40 soldiers crashed coming home from the Korean war in the 1950s. The neatest part was that Grandpa hiked up there after the crash when he was a senior in high school. He said there were pieces of the plane and body parts everywhere! He said the biggest body part they could find was part of a leg! He showed us where they found the motor and wings of the plane. He said he and his friend took the parachutes that the rescuers had left behind.

There was another group of people up there and as soon as they found out Grandpa Roger had been a wittiness to this they were all over him with questions. You could tell he enjoyed sharing his knowledge of history with them.