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Show 306 " A. When we speak of bad rapids like in Cataract Canyon and the Grand Canyon, we mean rapids where we are likely to strike a rock and smash our boat completely in two. That has happened with many; and rapids where a man is likely to be thrown out and not have any chance at all of saving his life. He is lucky if he gets out in those cases. When we came into Glen Canyon, the rapids we found there did not impress us as being that kind of a rapid - those kind of rapids - " Q. Can you tell me - MR. FARNSWORTH: Don't interrupt him. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Let him finish. " A. There were four rapids that stand out in my memory in Glen Canyon as being what we would call master rapids; they were shallow water, rocks close to the surface, all the way through; they would not make great waves that would swamp a boat; they would make jumpy water all the way through possibly for a quarter of a mile, and the boats were frequently dragging on the rocks; the water would force us through, through its own power; the boats are bouyant to a great extent, and while they were heavily loaded, water would force them right through, and our oars were continually striking these rocks. They weren't big rocks, sticking above the surface. One of those rapids is called the Bull Frog Rapid; another is close to Hall's Creek, and I think is called Bed Rock Rapid; the water pocket fold there is close to Hall's Creek; and then there is a rapid below Bridge Canyon." R. Vol. 5 - pp. 803- 804 |