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Show 407 " A. Well, we had lots of trouble in that Westwater Canyon; it is a continual mass of rapids in there; it is a hard granite formation; it has a tremendous fall down through there; all of those rapids have from two to four foot fall in them; I mean straight drops. " And there is a back suction under those little falls that make it quite a difficult proposition, and dangerous. Some places we could line them, other places the granite wall was like marble, smooth, you couldn't stand on your feet; steep; some places it was boxed so there was no chance to line a boat, and we had to ride over them. " If I recollect, we were two days in that canyon; we couldn't even find room to make a bed-down; there was no benches, no vegetation to speak of. There was places in there that is some vegetation, but where we happened to hit that night there was no vegetation of any kind, and no bench ground at all, just solid granite. So we had to make our bed in the crevices of the rocks. " Q. Coming out of Westwater Canyon, just continue on down the river and tell me about the trip. " A. Well, in places down through there on the Grand River or the Colorado, whatever it is known as, it is sluggish and slow; other places it breaks over in little riffles - a lot of people would call them rapids. It is shallow. |
