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Show Record was shallow. I think I could take a row boat from Moab up to Westwater 1046 Canyon. I could not row all the way up. I would be obliged to tow a part of the way. I imagine a man would do more 1047 towing than he would rowing. I have never boated the Grand River from Moab down to the mouth of the Green. I have boated the Green River from Greenriver down to the junction with the Grand and then up the Grand River to Moab. The first trip I made from the junction of the Green 1048 River to Moab was in February or March, 1925. I had the same boat 1049 as I used on the trip from Westwater to Moab. My brother was with me. We had a little rise in the water there at the junction of the rivers. I believe we were five days making the trip from the junction of the rivers to Shafer well No. 1, and there we put our boat on the big motor boat and came up to Moab on that. On our trip in the row boat from the junction of the 1050 rivers to Shafer well No. 1, we rode where we could and then towed. It is not difficult to row a boat up through the slide on the Colorado. There are eddies and it may be a little hard to get around the rocks, but we did it. We rowed around the slide. We probably towed the boat two- thirds of the distance 1051 between the mouth of the Green River and Shafer well No. 1. We were obliged to get out and wade because in a good many places the bank slopes so far, and the shallow water extends so far that you can't reach the boat with a tow line. In the big boat we left Shafer well No. 1 about one o'clock and we docked at Moab about six or seven o'clock. The big boat had difficulty with a sand bar just as we got in sight of Moab. It had little trouble. Was there only 15 or 20 minutes. 1053 My second trip up the Colorado was in December, 1927. I did not take the boats clear up that trip. I left them at Camp Lockhart. Between Camp Lockhart and the mouth of the Green River we had trouble. We couldn't make it up. We had floating ice. The |