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Show 5464 Mendenhall- D 3474 Q Any others you recall? name of the creek, runs off Navajo mountain. That is a very bad rapid, long rapid and has a heavy fall. Q About how far is that above the mouth of the San Juan? A I think it is about eight or ten miles; I can only estimate it. Q when you reached the mouth of the San Juan, then where did you go? A We had a little trouble there getting across the sandbar at the mouth of the river. Q Just tell me about that. A We had to get out and pull our boats across, and we found a little difficulty in finding any channel for the big boat, especially. The lighter boats went pretty well, but the big boat bothered us quite a bit. getting through all right, and we became pretty expert in handling oars around through the sandbars. We swung into the Colorado and started up that stream. |