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Show 219 the outer rock wall, where the channel is supposed generally to be, there is a large boat, an exposed bar, necessitating the boats going into the inner bank-- just simply illustrating that every once in a while the channel will not follow the ordinary custom but will leave the outer bank. By Mr. Blackmar: Q Well, do you find such idiosyncrasies as that often in the Colorado River? Or in the Green River? A Yes, sir. In other words, although in general you feet fairly safe in following the outside bend, occasionally you run onto a bar immediately in the outer channels. By the Special Master: Q Well, that is so as to any river, is it not? A I think that that is ordinarily so as to any river. At the mouth of Lockhart Canyon, at Mile 27, the channel has been forced against the right bank, and then swings back to the left bank, just below Mile 28. At Mile 28.3, there is a very decided crossing bar at which the channel was sufficient to float both boats. Between Miles 20 and 30 there were crossing bars at which both boats got stuck. In general, it was much easier for the small bout to get off, because we would simply lift the propeller and lift and push with the bar to get off. On the next day, Sunday, October 21, we left camp at Mile 30.7, approximately, and going around that bend immediately upstream from Mile 31 the big boat got stuck at Mile 31.2 on a 2182 |