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Show 104 -- 100-- Such idiosyncrasies will often be found in the Colorado or in the Green Rivers. " In other words, although in general you feel fairly safe in following the outside bend, occasionally you run onto the bar immediately in the outer channels." R. 219. I think that that is ordinarily so as to any river. At the mouth of Lockhart Canyon, at Mile 27, the channel has been forced against the right bank, and then swings back to the left bank, just below Mile 28. At Mile 28.3, there is a very decided crossing bar at which the channel was sufficient to float both boats. Between Miles 20 and 30 there were crossing bar at which both boats got stuck. In general, it was much easier for the small boat to get off, because we would simply lift the propeller and lift and push with the oar to get off. On the next day, Sunday, October 21, we left camp at Mile 30.7, approximately, and going around that bend immediately upstream from Mile 31 the big boat got stuck at Mile 31.2 on a crossing bar. Around the bend at Mile 32, the channel was well defined. Immediately, however, above Mile 32, between Miles 33 and 34, where there is a fairly straight stretch of the river, we ran into the most difficult crossing bars that we had thus far encountered; it took about half an hour before we finally got both boats across that bar. At that point, the big boat simply put the motor in low and plowed through." R. 219- 220. The depth is more or less uniform in all of those outside bands, and at the time he was there the outside depth was " I would say three to four feet." That would be the ruling depth |
