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Show 113 -- 113-- " Q Were these conditions the reason why you did not report on that river from the boat - the differences and difficulties that you encountered? " A Well, the upstream progress with a boat is naturally limited by the rapids that you hit there, beginning at about Sheep Creek and running upstream." R. 232- 233. The same conditions of instability obtain along the Colorado River between the mouth of the Green River and Moab, as those which obtain on the Green River. " The conditions as you approach Castle Creek are more the conditions of a mountain stream - more permanent there than to Sic at Moab." R. 233. " The characteristics of the two streams are very nearly the same. I should have said that channel conditions on the Colorado - there were more crossing bars observed on the Colorado than on the Green." R. 234. The Colorado River is straighter. [ between the junction of the Green and Colorado, and Moab] " If both of those rivers would keep on winding, always winding and never straightening out - which, of course, you can not have in nature; a river has got to get somewhere; it has got to turn. The windings of the river account largely for the crossing bar conditions, the crossing bar being formed wherever the current crosses from one side of the river to the other." R. 234. The Colorado probably carries more sediment," which may account for that, the presence of more crossing bars. I am not attempting to account for it. I simply state that I believe there are more crossing bars along the |