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Record a chance to get into it. The boat would not steer quick enough to make that channel and would run onto a sand bar. More often, though, it was because we didn't know just where the channel was and where the deep water was. In Stillwater canyon we did not have as much trouble with sand bars as we had in Labyrinth canyon. We overtook my brother with his boat below the Double- Bowknot, and we attached his boat to the other side so we had a sort of raft, three boats side by side. They were all propelled with this out- board motor, we did not use the oars at all. Once in a while my brother would loosen his boat and drag it behind the other two for the sake of making motion pictures from the deck of the boat. We arrived at the mouth of the Green River on September 15 and camped a short distance above the Junction. We passed the Junction at an early hour on September 16th. From the Junction down to the first cataract in Cataract canyon I do not remember of 828 having any trouble with sand bars. It is our knowledge and supposition that the channel between bends is continually changing. 829 I run the boat through Cataract canyon. I would run one boat through a rapid, tie the others up at the head of the rapid, get down into quiet water below the whirl- pools where I could make a landing, and would then walk back along the shore and run a second boat through. While I was doing this my brother would be on the shore making motion pictures of the action of the boat in the water, and in most cases I would run a third boat through in the same way. I adopted the Galloway method of going through those rapids, that is, stern foremost. In nearly all places the water in Cataract canyon was about the same as I found it in 1911. The rapids in Cataract Canyon change very little. I would take Dellenbaugh's book and I could tell almost exactly where we were going to find rapids the next day ahead. We did not use Dellenbaugh's book on this second trip. We used our own notes. - 119- |
