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Show run . Drift was thrown ( in i-ii iii ) ( 416 A16 ) at the head of the rapids , to pick out the best channel through the rocks , and by very careful work we were able to get to the last rapid in the canyon without smashing up a boat . At the last rapid , or next to the last one , Emory Kolb was running one of the boats through , and he ran on a rock . The boat was there approximately two days ; had to throw a line out to him , a ( small sinall ) line , had a big rope ashore ; built a tripod , put the rope over it , rigged up sort of a pulley , and got all the equipment off the boat . It took them all the next day , then , to get the boat off the rock . As he remembers , ( didn't didnt ) portage any of the ( rap- rap ) ids in Cataract Canyon ; but ( wouldn't wouldnt ) say for sure . ( R . 1485 . ) Going down that canyon there are talus slopes , large boulders on one side or . the other on which a portage could be made . He believes there are talus slopes on one side or the other all the way through . There are ( 110 no ) box canyons except at the last rapid , there is one there that is boxed . ( R . 1486 . ) From the end of Cataract Canyon they went on down to Lees ( Perry Ferry ) . Describing that trip . Had already ( had bad ) the traverse run from the ( mouth inouth ) . of Fremont ; on the previous trip we had worked that , so they tied in our line at the Fremont River , went on down as far as Hite ; they tried to repair the ( ino- ino ) tor . ( Didn't Didnt ) have the material to repair it , so went 9 |