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Show 429 Lodore Oanyon , one of the most difficult canyons on the river , is next . Thefirst Powell Expedition , , lost a boat going through . there , it being smashed at Disaster Falls . ( R . 1520 . . . Then coines Whirlpool Canyon , , which is not s ( -sloe sloe ) bad , but has some lively rapids in it . Below Lodore Canyon is the Uintah Basin in Utah , where comparatively good going is had foi thirty miles or so , after which comes the Canyon of Desolation , some ( ninety-seven ninetyseven ) or one hundred miles long and of very rapid descent ; ( "rapids rapids ) and shoal water at low water . " ( R . 1521 . ) After Desolation Canyon is Gray Canyon , about twenty or thirty miles long , with a few rapids in . it . Next comes Gunnison Crossing , where ( Green- Green ) river , , Utah , is now ( located "located located ) . ( ( K R ) . 1521 . ) ( Encoun- Encoun ) tered no other boats . ( R . 1521-1522 . ) The expedition was resupplied ( with -with with ) rations brought overland from Salt Lake City , Utah , to the Indian Agency at Uintah Utah at the mouth , , of the ( Duchesne Duchesile ) River . They were not brought down on the river ; they ( couldn't couldnt ) do that . ( R . . 1522 . . ) Major Powell left the expedition at Duchesne and went out to make arrangements for rations , to meet us at the mouth of the Dirty Devil River . . The party that he got to bring the rations in ( couldn't couldnt ) find the river and so the expedition took on extra supplies that came ( h-1 h1 ) overland from Mantli , Utah , to Gunnison Crossing . These supplies came in by |