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Show Record under the existing condition. 1276 On my trip from North wash down we carried in the boat about 400 pounds of supplies and the two men with me and myself 1277 weighed probably 500 pounds. We left North wash at one- thirty P. M. We camped that night at about mile 154, having traveled down the river about 13 miles in a little over three hours. On the way down we got off at Red Canyon and made a visit there of probably 1279 30 minutes. The next morning, September 2nd, we left at eight- ten. We camped that night at mile 92, arriving there at seven- thirty P. M. We stopped about an hour for lunch that day. We left mile 92 the next morning at seven- thirty, September 3rd. That day we spent from ten- seventeen to four- forty visiting the Rainbow bridge, national monument. After our excursion to the monument we got in our boat again and went farther down the stream. 1281 We camped at mile 54 1/ 2. We arrived there at pretty close to dark. 1282 We left mile 54 1/ 2 the nest morning at seven- thirteen A. M. and arrived Lees Ferry at one- ten P. M. the same day, making no 1283 side excursions. I would call the trip quite an adventure. It was a highly uncomfortable trip. It was raining a good part of the time and that added to the discomfort. A skiff such as we had could make 1285 that trip without extreme difficulty. I believe it would have been impossible to have gone back up in the boat because it would have been necessary to get out and push or tow the boat against many of 1286 those riffles and currents. I am familiar with the gradient. I have made no survey but have seen maps of actual surveys. The maps showed the elevation at North wash as 3455 feet and at Lees Ferry as 3120 feet, and the 1287 distance as 168 miles between those points. That makes exactly two feet to the mile. I was never on that piece of river before and had never 1888 seen it under other conditions and I have not been there since. Coming back to my Moab trip I left the mouth of the Green River at |