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Show Record to Cataract Canyon, where there are a number of sand bars. It is still water that causes that, the wide spread of still water; but by taking sufficient caution and not running down there full head of steam, you can get through there alright. I was never stuck there. If you have not been down for a year, you must look 4791 around a little. Take, for instance, where there are three channels with two sand bars exposed between them. They may all look alike, or two of them may look alike. You would enter which-over one of those channels has the real current of water in it. That current is the strong one; it makes a stoppage of the slower current which builds up the bar. Neither one of the first two could you get through, while all three look practically equal when you go down. For that reason you can go up stream so much easier than you can down. You cannot get past this bar, but when you step off of it, in one step, you are in deep water. The water goes over these bars maybe two or three inches at a time, and the other current is so strong it creates slowness but doesn't wash the bar out and it continues across the river that way in some instances. In my experience on the river I have never found a condition of this kind where there was not a channel if I knew where 4792 it was. A recent experience in going up and down the river is of value in navigating it. When I first started I either got Mr. Wolverton or Mr. Wheeler or some one in the boat. I did not tackle it alone. I went from their experience until I got the experience. If I had in mind a trip I was going to take next week, if I had been down the river this week, it would be of value to me, because I would know where the channel was then for sure, unless there had been a big flood, but, even if there had, the channel would be there just the same. The channel does not changes it is the current that crosses the river. Coming up stream, for instance, in low water, the water we will say, goes across and makes a bend; that does not fill up because a big flood comes down. At that point the water may be |