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Show 3799 Woodbury- D 1820 day; stayed the next night -- that night at Hite, Utah, some one hundred and sixty miles above Lee Ferry; I forget whether it was the first night out of Cataract or the second. The water is rather uncertain in through there. Q What do you mean by uncertain? A You will be going along, it is kind of boiling on the surface, rolling around, looks all right; the first thing you know your boat goes out sideways, outs around in a circle, bad whirlpools, they don't show; get your boat completely out of control. We had that more in there below Hite, closer to Lees Ferry; Hite is about one hundred and sixty miles above Lees Ferry. A few miles below there, there is a rapid known as Bull Frog rapid, rather fast water, one hundred and twenty miles above Lee Ferry; around one hundred miles above Lees Ferry is what they call Whirlpool rapids; that is a little bit rougher than Bull Frog rapids; rather swift water. In one of them, I forget which , is Rocky ledges above it, running across. We had boats at that place, or above that place, stuck on the gravel. Two or three of the men had to get overboard and dislodge them, ease them over where they could float again. Q Was that at Bull Frog? A That was above Bull Frog, I think above both the rapids. |
