OCR Text |
Show Record Company, the purpose of the trip was to take the officials of that company up stream past their dam site that they were working on. I went above Lees Ferry pretty near to Warm Creek as I remember it. The boat went up stream fine. We had no trouble. Coming down was the same. We struck no sand bars. We did not find any water where we had difficulties going up. The large sand bars that are permanent we usually designate as islands. A sand bar is a smaller bar that is exposed 4799 in extremely low water and also the sand that is deposited from receding high water on the sides of the canyon. The deposits of sand that are made across the stream at or below bends, we call sand bars. I have never heard the term crossing bar. In going down the river on my first trip of the season I have always been able to select the right channel. On those occasions when we had not selected the right channel, we would, if we were not running too fast and discovered it soon enough, back up and go around and down the channel, but if we had gotten down to where we were pretty solid, we sometimes hauled the boat across or would go across into the deep channel. 4800 At such a place we have gotten out. It is sometimes easier to get out than it is to assist the boat with a pole. A good deal of that trouble on those trips is because we do not make so very many trips down the river during a year, and they are all, as a rule, some distance apart. The only trips I think I took fairly close together was for he Marlin Oil Company. I do not think I selected the wrong channel at any time on either of those trips. I have made trips down and then back within two or three days where on the down trip I got in the wrong channel in the 4801 manner I have described. Coming back up I had no difficulties in locating and passing through a good and sufficient channel. Coming up the thing is self evident. It is practically a square- shoulder sand bar. We do not get into it at all, we follow the channel. I don't think the real, old, original channel changes. In extreme low water the channel runs, we will say, from one side to |