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Show Record the difficulty with the channel is where the stream is not confined and can spread out and probably breaks up and becomes a braided channel. In that situation, If a man is not familiar with the stream, if he has not been going up and down it recently so as to know just the proper ribbon of the stream to take, he may get fooled 4256 going down stream. He may go down one part of the stream for two or three hundred yards and will find some impediment that will cause some of the water to flow over a shallow bar and connect with the middle channel, which was a good deal smaller at the place where he started to come down. He may take the wrong channel going down. Usually coming up he is in much better position to see which is the right channel. Of course, if he has been up and down there recently, so he knows from experience which is the proper channel, he is in still better shape. In the case of a braided channel, and you take the wrong 4257 channel, you cannot get into the upper end of the right channel. You pick out the channel that looks like your deepest water when you start down, but maybe it is not, you cannot always tell. In that situation the old experienced hand will get caught right along. 4258 He has got to hunt cut a channel. he will not always find a channel. I have been up against that condition many a time on the Green River 4259 in Stillwater and Labyrinth Canyons. We would then pick out the best channel and work our boats across it. I may not have seen that condition when on the Undine. I did see it the next year. I do not recollect that I saw that condition when on the Wilmont. I 4260 experienced that condition in Stillwater Canyon on the Marguerite. With the Marguerite, in that condition, We usually let her cut through going down. Coming up we did not get into those boxes quite so bad, because coming up we can select the right channel to get up. There has not been any trip that I have undertaken that I did not succeed in getting where I was going, except the one trip 4261 with the City of Moab. It is my recollection that on my own boats, or on the power boats, or the boats of any one else, the only time in all my experience where I did not reach my destination was the |