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Show 588 1989-1990 ) Left camp on ( Orescent Crescent ) Greek 6th or 10th of December . Kept diary of trip . ( R . 1990 . . ) Practiced rowing after boats were in water ; ( Lang- Lang ) don Gibson aim brother 0 . D . Gibson , fine Oarsmen and ( champion chsimpion ) rowers . ( ( B R ) . 1991 . ) Mr , ( Stanton's Stantons ) boat led expedition . Oars were extra long ; boats overloaded , heavy and hard to pull . ( ( B R ) . 1992 . ) Sat with their feet ( in iii ) sort of stirrups , so boat rolling would not throw ( them theni ) out . Between Crescent Creek and Hite encountered a great ( many inany ) small rapids , winding rapids ; full of boulders ; run on banks , run on to bars . ( Every- Every ) body ( would ivould ) get out and ( vade wade ) across river back and forth to ( find 'find find ) channel ; some places get through all right , some places have to drag boats ; same ( condi- condi ) tions every few miles , all way through Glen ( Can- Can ) ( yon you ) , the upper canyons , above Cataract Canyon , and through Green ( Eiver River ) . ( R . 1993-1994 . ) Stopped at Hite several days . ( ( B R ) . 1994 . ) Party there to meet Mr . Stanton in connection with ( min- min ) ing , came by horseback or wagon to Hite . . ( R . 1995 . ) Between Hite and Lees Ferry there are rapids ; ; all the rapids are at the mouth of side washes that carry out rocks into river in storms , , high water , , floods , and ( cloudbursts eloudbursts ) . ( Biver River ) either coming up or falling all the time ; every day is different . . Very little ( time thile ) in sulunier that it is not changing , , rising or falling . ( R . 1995-1996 . ) The great trouble with Cass ( Hite's Hites ) mining he never could keep in a |