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Show 563 back in the way you came: Why did you select the water route? " A Neither Mr. Coffin or I had ever been between this location of Indian creek and the Colorado river, in the first place. " In the second place; it meant practically a day's ride from Indian creek to the closest place we could have our car. " And third, we went from Indian creek down to this structure I told you about, where I put up the sign, the stake, we went from there before returning or attempting to return by the river." R. 1371. The boat that met him at the point was the 16 foot Fort motored boat and they went on down stream first, before they returned to Moab. The time be drove his automobile to the Indian Creek was about eight months later than this trip when the boat met him, and the road had been built into Indian Creek in the meantime. R. 1373. On the occasion when he walked from the Shafer wall up to Moab he didn't walk down because he wanted to see the formation in the river bottom which was not visible by going over the top. He could have walked down very nicely. R. 1372- 1373. He could not row upstream, he tried it, went up three miles and had to give it up. R. 1373. He did not try to row back to Moab, Simply |