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Show 918 " A We run along feeling out the channel. The channel down through there is arbitrary, down through Green River. It is different from most any other river. Where the channel should be, it will be shoal water, and have to change your channel. You will get aground. We got aground every once in a while, and we would have to get out and feel around, hold on to the boat and drag it along to find our channel." R. 2173. Groundings on sand bars occur four or five times a day, sometimes not so much, dependant on the stretch of the river. Sand bar conditions were pretty bad in places from Greenriver, Utah, down to the mouth of the San Rafael. There were a great number of bars in this stretch of the river and it was necessary to cross the river from one side to the other hunting a channel and when the boat would ground it was necessary to get out and wade and pull the boats off. The sand is shifting all the times, a good deal like desert sand. " You may drive across Death Valley, any place, the same as I have, just as nice a road as you want, and come along tomorrow and there is a pile of sand piled up; it is the same in the river; it keeps changing." R. 2174. On the first Stanton trip the party was not equipped with life preservers and the boats were lined through Cataract Canyon. R. 2174 " Q Tell me about going through Cataract. " A We lined the boats through Cataract. But even lining them through, they found out we were too heavy loaded then. Mr. Hughes and Reynolds - I can't think of his name - they threw away good overcoats that was worth |