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Record in the center from a single oarsman. The boats drew 4/ 1/ 2 inches 765 empty, and 8 inches in the center when loaded up to 1200 pounds. 767 The rocker sllows the boat to be turned very quickly. Prior to making the trip I had crossed the river several times about one mile above Bright Angel trail. My brother had had considerably more experience than I had on the river. He swam a great many horses across the river, holding their heads close to a 768 boat, with one man rowing and the other holding the halter. I had had no experience in running rapids before we started the trip and I don't think my brother had run any real rapids. When we started at Green River City, Wyoming, it was extremely 780 low water. It rained a lot when we were in Lodore. We had a six foot rise up the river. The river conditions changed from that time on coming down. The Yampa river came in and that 781 added considerably more water as well. We made the run from Split mountain down to Jensen in one day. We made the run from Jensen to 784 Ouray in a day and a half and there would be more and more water. The current was increasing as we came down. There is a road that parallels the river from McPherson's ranch down to Greenriver, Utah; that is nearly within sight of the river all the way. There were people going down the road. We had quite a lot of fun running races with them while they were on the road and we were out in the river. It was lively water. It wasn't especially dangerous and we made good time. 785 The water in the river above Greenriver, Utah, is com-paratively quiet. We found sand bars in the river, islands in the middle of the river with channels on both sides. One channel would be deep and possibly the other would be shallow. We would ground frequently on the sand bars. We had an extra oar and would push the boat back in the channel. Between Green River, Wyoming, and Greenriver, Utah, we noticed ranchess in different sections had boats tied up to the 786 shore. They were hurriedly made flat bottom boats. We did not see |
