Traditions At Weber: Mount Ogden Hike The highest peak in the immediate Wasatch range, Mount Ogden stands bleak and barren. From the top on a clear day neighboring states are visible as well as Salt Lake City and Logan and the sheen of the Great Salt Lake stretching to the sun. In 1922 a studentbody and faculty hike to the peak was instigated, with plans to place a 20foot flagpole at the summit. Mount Ogden and the attainment of its highest peak became a symbol of achievement at Weber State College and the hike to reach it became a favorite tradition. WEBER y STATE : COLLEGE} | A trail-blazing party left early “~s OFFICIAL BICENTENNIAL CAMPUS in the morning on Sept. 30, 1922, to blaze a trail for the main group who would hike to the top on Oct. 4, 1922. Student leaders Llewelyn McKay, Thomas Woods, Ted Woods, Floyd Barnett and Ted McGregor, led by faculty member Harvey Taylor, moved rocks, built bridges and blasted a hole in 4 . — L Ag va aeraAR RA ote 4 NAA A fahere We Wm 4 ea erernae te on AN RRE ho se) the solid rock at the top for the flagpole. On Oct. 4, still buoyed up from a, rousing rally the afternoon before, students and faculty met at the mouth of Taylor’s canyon at 5 a.m. to begin the hike to the top. The band played as a send-off to the hikers. Six horses were taken to carry sand, cement and the heavy, four- sectioned steel pole but each class had specific assignments. The sophomores were fo help carry sand, cement and water. The Juniors brought the flagpole. College students had obtained a flag and were to raise it while the faculty was assigned to help where necessary. The group stopped at Malan’s Heights at 8:30 a.m. to eat breakfast. From their the hike was rugged. The horses refused to carry the flag pole and the students took over the struggle, hefting the pole up the steep incline. The last few miles were the steepest but “‘at two o-clock in the afternoon the last hiker, the last bag of cement, sand and water and the last length of the flag pole. reached the top,” reports Clarisse Hall. “‘A rest period was called and lunches were eaten. Soon the. flag pole, twenty feet in height, was set three feet into solid rock and tightly cemented. The names of the students reaching the peak — were written on a scroll, placed in a glass bottle, and cemented beneath the pole.”’ : oF David O. McKay, then president of the board of trustees, said “all things worthwhile are difficult of attainment, just as reaching the peak of Mount Ogden.’’ He gave the dedicatory prayer. Talks were given by Aaron Tracy, president of the college; Willard Marriott, college studentbody president and Llewelyn McKay, high school president. As the red, white and blue flag 9 ae eR X = ES DPR NESE Me OID YH Soros *~ Po ep An RN Vg Pay see ets Ce a tat Sree retin POI tA Wat ce i + on en ateate = gee Sh REESE * em . - nnn aan gles a << - Sh Ste sia STO reSe Se Ain. netoy wr " = ~ Nyt Ne Nee nec lS £ ee tla ae unfurled in the wind and the school flag followed it up the pole: ¥