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Show Record and sometimes we would row one at a time and on other occasions we would both row. Until some time in the latter part of February the ice was frozen in the canyons the years we made the trip from Green River to Moab. During all severe winters the Green River freezes up in the canyon. I again went to the San Juan River in the late winter of 1928, going overland from Moab via Bluff to the Goulding trading post in Monument Valley. There we hired a Navajo Indian, who had 3505 a wagon and some horses, to haul us and our outfit to a point just below the mouth of Nuggett Creek on the San Juan River. We took with us some lumber and heavy canvas and made a canvas bottom boat at the mouth of Nuggett Creek, from which point my companion Morse and I started down the San Juan River with the boat wed had made. It was about fourteen and a half feet long and had a draft of about three inches. We continued down the San Juan River to the mouth of Piute Creek and encountered no rapids in that part of the river; the rapid that had been at the mouth of Piute Creek having disappeared, and the rapids at the mouth of Copper and Nokai Canyons that I had formerly encountered were entirely covered up with 3506 sand. We had fairly swift water there and it was fairly deep at the mouth of Copper Canyon where the sand had come in; I should say four or five feet or three or four feet. You can't tell as to depths unless you happen to measure it with an oar. Above that it was quite shallow because of the wide sand bars. I observed quite a little change in that section of the river at the mouth of Nuggett Creek as compared with its condition when I saw it in previous years. The river had more sand in it. There were no gravel bars at any point showing in the river bottom, whereas there had been 3507 quite a few such bars on our first trip. It was about a thirty mile trip from the mouth of Nuggett Creek down to the mouth of Piute Creek, where we remained as long as our supplies would permit, which was two or three days. Then we walked back overland to our camp |