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Show 990 In Labyrinth and Stillwater Canyons trouble was encountered at nearly every channel crossing, " one or the other or all of us would run aground." A channel crossing is a place where the channel leaves one side of he river bed and crosses over to the opposite side of the river bed. On a loop the channel is naturally expected to be on the outside and if the river starts to make a reverse curve the channel has to change over from the outside of the first loop across the river to the outside of the next loop, so in this crossing the channel, it spreads out. It is in these places where you have trouble navigating these rivers because there is no channel, it spreads out evenly over the shifting channel. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q Ordinarily going down this river or any curving river I suppose you would expect to find the channel on the outside of the loop, would you, and you ordinarily would find it there, wouldn't you? " A Yes sir, ordinarily find it there. Here is a condition, you get a loop like this, your channel is on the outside, there is a big rock here ten or fifteen feet square, lots of times we will shoot the channel clear cross to the other side of the river. " Q That is a thing you could observe? " A You can observe the rock, yes, and naturally see the channel going over, and probably in going across in way spread out and make a crossing of the own, right there." R. 2349. In boating these channel crossings it is not possible for the boatman to discern deepest water by observation because it is so evenly distributed over sand bar and |
