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ST. GEORGE — Continuing a more than 110-year tradition, seniors from Dixie High School were hanging by ropes over the edge of Sugarloaf, also known as Dixie Rock, Friday morning with white paint and white knuckles.
With dozens of students pulling and releasing a rope atop the Sugarloaf, students rappelled down to repaint the Dixie letters. Adults supervised from above and from lawn chairs below.
There was a brief scare as one student slipped and descended around 18 feet down to a ledge. Despite the screams of onlookers, she quickly signaled she was fine with an embarrassed smile.
The "Bucket Run," as it's called, began in 1913. According to the Washington County Historical Society, the senior class of 1913 painted "1913" on the Sugarloaf. At first, the numerals were painted over several times by lower classes — 1914 and 1915 — in what became a less-than-friendly battle.
