With rain dampening our activities, we headed back into Panguitch to visit a couple of antique stores we had noticed on our first trip into town. Many of the store fronts in the town are now empty but we enjoyed wandering through the ones that were open. We had noticed Quilts hung on structures along the side of the road in town. We asked one of the shop owners who told us we had just missed the Panguitch Quilt Walk Festival. The festival is held every year to honor 7 men who in 1863 walked 43 mile through heavy snow to reach the nearest town to get supplies for the hungry colony. The now was so deep, the kept sinking into it but found that if they laid the quilts they had brought with them to stay warm on the snow and then stepped on them, they did not sink into the snow. Using their quilts, they made it the 43 miles and back with supplies in time to save the colony.
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