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Show 994 one hundred miles above Lees Ferry. He knows of a rock ledge that runs across the Colorado River in Glen Canyon, and he recalls crossing that ledge on this trip. This ledge is located just below the mouth of Lake Canyon. R. 2356. He did not have much trouble in getting down over the ledge, but just before he got to it he ran on to some gravel, and as he went over the ledge " I drug my oars, seemed to be smooth." R. 2356- 2357. He was still using the steel boat. When he got to Lees Ferry he obtained enough supplies to take him back to Hite. The journey back upstream from Lees Ferry to Hite was an awful trip; " I was wet to the waist for about twenty- four days in February; started in January, and one thing that caused that trip, probably, to be so hard, was the mental condition a long with the other, because things were looking pretty blue." R. 2357. There were times during the trip that he did not know that he had any feet under him. In towing the boat up the stream he had a line about one hundred twenty feet long attached to the bow and then around to the stern. " I would get up there to where I would quarter my boat like that and walk up the river, and the action of the water on this side of the boat will keep it out in the river to a certain extent. While you can walk along there on those turns in Glen canyon, there is always places there you have got to get out and wade in order to get your boat around the point of sand on the turn of sand bar. That is where I would always get wet. " When you come to a rapid you coil your rope up and put it in the boat and get the nose of your boat and get out in |