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Show east wall at the apex ( 24 04 ) of ( Horseshoe 11-Iorseshoe 11Iorseshoe ) Canyon is about 1,600 feet above the ( water's waters ) edge and from ( tliis this ) ( point pohit ) the walls slope both to the head ( and akI ) foot of the canyon . Kingfisher ( Canyon Cauyon ) , starting at the ( water's waters ) edge above , steadily increases in altitude to 1,200 feet at the foot . Red Canyon , the highest ( avails valls ) are about 2,500 feet . Browns Park is a ( val- val ) ley ( bounded boiinded ) on either side by a ( mountain tnouiitain ) range , really ( an aii ) expansion of the ( canyon caliyon ) . ( Photographs 6 to 19 , Exhibit 11A . ) ( Prom From ) ( Browns BroNvns ) Park the river flows ( southward southiirard ) through Lodore ( Canyon Canyou ) , a distance of 19 miles to the mouth of the ( Yampa Yanipa ) River . Powell , Exhibit 51 , page 30 , describes the canyon starting ( "abruptly abruptly ) at what we have called the Gate of Lodore , with ( walls ivalls ) nearly ( 2,000 2,00-0 ) feet high and they are never lower than this until we reach Alcove Brooki about 3 ( miles iniles ) above the foot . They are very irregular , ( standing stauding ) in vertical or overhanging cliffs in ( places place's places ) , ( terraced terTaced ) in others , or receding in steep slopes and are broken by many side gulches and canyons . The highest point on the wall is at ( Dunn's Dunns ) Cliff , near Triplet ( Palls Falls ) , where the rocks reach ( an ail ) altitude of 2,700 feet , but the peaks a little ( way vay ) back rise nearly a 1,000 feet higher . " With further reference to Lodore Canyon , ( Powell Poivell ) says ( Exhibit 51 , page 30 ) : This ( lias has ) been a chapter of disasters and toil , notwithstanding which the canyon of |