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Show Kolb- D 859 A Yes sir. Q How far down the river did you come? A To Moab. Q To Moab? A Yes sir. Q Just tell me what difficulties if any you encountered between the Colorado- Utah line and Moab, the character of boat, who was in it, and so forth. A I spoke of two trips; the first trip left Delta for Moab August 18, 1916. My companion was John Shields; had a Peterboro freight canoe, with outriggers for oars instead of paddles. When we got to the mouth of westwater canyon, or the head of it we had the boat hauled around that short canyon, and we walked through on trails which are on the inner plateau, very much like the Grand Canyon; there is an inner gorge, the there is a plateau, then sandstone walls above that; there was a trail through, a cattle trail; we walked through; over two days time, and observed the rapids while we waled through, looking at them, sometimes cling down to them, three hundred and fifty to five hundred feet from this plateau down to the river, and when we got down to the end of the rapids, ranchers had hauled our canoe around. Shields wasn't a water man; I didn't want to go 2829 |
