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Show 1040 " When I first went over there [ Lees Ferry] I never had been on a swift water river. I had learned from boating experience before to mark a channel so the second trip over you would know where to go. " Naturally, my first trip up, and second trip up, I made these markers to enable me to accomplish the trip with more case the next trip up." R. 2470- 2471. The majority of the markings were made during the first few trips. " The second trip, after we got on a bar which was not in the river on the first trip up, the bar perhaps wasn't in that place, there was good water, so we would put up another marker." R. 2471. " Q Why put up another marker? " A So we would know where the bar would be next time; we didn't know whether it would be there or not; we would look for it. " Q If you answered me that you followed this practice of marking places at which you had observed difficulties throughout the period that you were operating there, do you know just why you didn't limit it to the first trip or two? " A I don't know that I made you understand just what I was up against in going on this river in placing these markers." R. 2471. The places that he marked and fixed in his mind on the river where he had encountered difficulties were so marked because he had mistaken the channel or had been hung up, and if he has difficulty in a place he tried to remember it throughout the entire course of his operations there. He also did this because he expected that the difficulty found there would not be so unstable as to not be present on succeeding trips. |
