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Show 1004 rapid; no trouble." No trouble was encountered in Stillwater Canyon and only a bar or two encountered in Labyrinth, which gave little or no trouble. The water was a flood stage during all the time they were on the Green River. During these floods there is lots of drift which makes it pretty bad in boating rapids or any other place. R. 2376. Between the mouth of the San Rafael River and the mouth of the Green just the ordinary stops were made for camps. He does not recall how long the trip took to that point. " Q. Tell me about the progress of this trip through Cataract canyon. " A. When we entered cataracts, of course, naturally, we thought we knew the river, to a certain extent; but we didn't; because in 1907, 1, 2, 3, and 4, was rather mild rapids; 5 was a bad one. " In 1914, 1, 2, 3, and 4 was fierce ones, and 5 was gone entirely. In No. 4 I really believe that the waves was twenty feet high. " I made this calculation because my boat was sixteen feet long; I had that to go by; my boat would be clear down in the troughs, and from the length of the boat and everything I calculated them waves to be at least twenty feet high. Right below there, where the bad rapid was, we expected trouble there; went down and sailed peacefully through; no rapid there. [ R. 2377]. " But the rapid was, fierce, that is, down below, the rapids was all bad. To explain a rapid, as a rule a rapid draws down in a long, smooth stretch of water in the form of a " V". At the end of that " V" is where the wave starts; they are the biggest at the end of the " V". You can cut across the |