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Show Kolb- D 787 them projecting above the water, and most of them just directly underneath, and we could drag our oars and touch rocks. Q Can you give me the date you left Greenriver? A I could not without looking at some notes, which I have not got with me just at this minute. It took us one month, a little bit over a month, to make that run, five weeks from the time we started until we left Greenriver, Utah. Q Can you get the exact date, so you can have it in the morning? A Yes. Q Did you run on any of these riffles or bars between Greenriver, Utah, and the mouth of the San Rafael? A One or two instances the boat would get on a rock and the bow would stick and them swing clear; it would swing around; and when we would run rapids -- shall I explain this -- when we run rapids we reverse our boat and go into it stern first; we face downstream; we have a square look at the danger that is ahead; if it is a rocky rapid, you are looking directly at the rocks. Q Do you do that on the bad rapids? A On the bad rapids, the very bad rapids; as soon as we heard the rapid we would reverse the boat, instead of pulling downstream, like we do in quiet water, trying to make time, we would turn directly around, we would enter the rapids stern first, and we would be pulling against the current and 2755 |