ROAM AT HOME THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday June 2, 1977, PAGE 11 Attack on Anarchist Mountain : . oy Lyn Hancock Ask a driver: “Where is Canada’s longest continuous hill?” He’ll probably reply: “Somewhere in the Rockies.” Ask a cyclist. He'll say . with a groan: “Anarchist Mountain.” higns eee es paved - way-to-the-sky, windin for 18 miles and to a 2000. foot (4,800-metre) elevation from Osoyoos Lake and the - summit near Bridesville, ‘may be a tough climb for the clist intent on ‘reaching e top without a stop, but it is a rewarding road for the traveller with time to tarry. __ Itshistory is as exciting as its geography is spec- .. tacular: From the lakeside resort town of Osoyoos you leave the lush orchards and fruit stands of Santos, Vieros and Garcia to meander among the ranch lands of Sidley AiG SHES. softAIBR Dig into the history behind 7 sagging settlements or lopsided signs along the gree of back country roads that crisscross the. mountain and you will . limpse turbulent times ind the sleepy desert scenes, Cows graze now among the cac and - antelo bush, but at the turn of the - eentury, loggers attacked stands of ponderosa -pine that were three feet through the butt. ; The mountain’s very is anything but ceful. The story goes at it is named after Dick Sidley, a wild Irish radical of extreme political views who was often called an anarchist, A homesteader there in 1885, Sidley was the mountain's first post- master, customs officer and justice of the peace until his Qutapoken ways got -him fir Another story suggests that it was not Sidley who was the anarchist but a gang of horse rustling outlaws | that roamed the mountain, Sidley call the outlaws the anarchists. . ‘Whichever is correct, the name is unique and lives longer than Sidley itself now buried by the forest. Straddling the boundary between canada and th United States, Mountain has been involyed | ‘in several amusing situations. When ! Canadian farmer needed threshing to be done but the nearest machine belonged to an. American farmer: acress the border, he solved the problems by | placitg his neighbour’s . thresher parallel to the boundary. One man tossed the sheaves over to the United States while the straw-and the chaff were blown back to Canada. In another situation, two ‘brothers had a sawing machine on one side of the -beundary and a planer on the other. They shipped and e village of | n @ Anarchist | a solid the lumber in the country of the best price. e signpost says at one of the two official viewpoints, Anarchist Mountain is a‘ “crossroads of the centuries.” Down the valley running north and south came the Indians, the fur traders, the Miners and the early set- tlers. Across the sandspit east and west ran the busy Dewdney Trail to the Kootenay goldfields. Today, you enjoy not only the history geneath your tires but a spectacular | diorama of lake and river, mountain and forest in every direction. . ~ As you loop to the summit SARE Ru AREP he HAs then -zagging towards Canada, gaining elevation at each switchback, you leave behind the sand and the gage bush and reach the cool of mountain stream and tamarack. Here several rest areas % and a provincial cam- 4 round at Johnson Creek low you tranquility to contemplate the peace of the resent as you remember e zest of the past. By JAY SHARBUTT LOS ANGELES AP - Afier a 12-year absence, Lee Van Cleef, the hard-eyed Old West gunsel of High Noon and later Clint Eastwood's For a Few Dollars More, is returning to television. Vav Cleef's show, airing Sunday on NBC, is a series: pilot called NO Where to. Hide. He plays Ike Scanlan, a U.S. Marshall protectin an informant the mo wishes to kill. . It’s a strange role for the man, who, because of 60 movies and 150 TV shows, is well known as one of ac- ting’s most sinister villains. 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