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Show 316 " Q. What do you mean by a permanent bed for high water? " A. I mean it is a channel where nothing grows, where there is no vegetation, nothing but sand, and every evidence that the high water would fill that bed from bank to bank, and then when it recedes picks out sometimes a channel in the very middle, with two islands, one on either side. Sometimes there would be an island with just a very shallow between, and a deeper channel on the other side. It had a chance up in Labyrinth Canyon to meander, to work from side to side considerably, and there was every evidence of shifting channels there. We always expected to find deep water if there were short loops or turns in the river close to the outside of the loop. We were nearly always correct in finding a channel at that point. And Desolation Canyon has more of that than any other place, - goose- necks, they call them, where it in winding back and forward. We would pull downstream, keeping very close to the vegetation, sometimes we could reach it with the oars, because we knew that was the only channel for good swift water, and then half a mile ahead we would see it turned to the other side of the river, and our only difficulty was in finding the channel; we connected one loop with the other, and there is every evidence that those channels fill up with silt, and the water cause by driftwood or rocks, occasional rocks or |
