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Show 1095 After reaching Halls Crossing they waited there until the other party came, about a week later. They started the trip on the 17th of August, and got to Halls Crossing, -- " Roughly I should say about twelve days." " It is possible one day of that was for a trip we made up to Rainbow bridge, which would give us eleven days navigating. If that is correct, we averaged slightly better than ten miles a day; practically daylight to dark work. " May I finish answering the question you asked about Hall's Crossing? You asked what we did there. " We were waiting nearly a week. During that interval I took one boat voyage with a single boat and four of the party up the canyon. We went ten miles further, through a rapid called Dull Frog, which was somewhat rougher and steeper than in Glen canyon, below; then me went up to a creek with some interesting cliff dwellings, passing an old dredge that had been abandoned in the river. " That was the farthest point we touched. " Shortly after our return, the party for which we were waiting came in. " R. 2587- 3588 On the down trip they hit occasional grounding and sand bars. Between Hall's Crossing and Warm Creek they had more groundings on the way down than they did upstream, we were a little more heavily laden, but nothing like the continuous delays and troubles we had from currents, rocks, break- downs and other difficulties on the up river trip. We had the current with us. |
