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Show Record rapid. The taking of the moving pictures delayed the party 1721 quite a bit. If it had not been for our taking pictures we could have come through in less time. On five or six occasions I have been in a boat that came upstream from Lee's Ferry. The first of these occasions was in July, 1926, when we had a 36 feet motorboat with a 5 feet beam, drawing about 18 inches of water. It 1722 had a Fort automobile motor and belonged to me. My sole purpose in taking the trip was to see if I could come up there. My supplies weighed in the neighborhood of two hundred and fifty pounds and there was another man with me and we had a camping outfit and extra gas. We came upstream approximately forty of fifty miles 1723 from Lee's Ferry. I would say that the river was then flowing approximately 40,000 second feet. We left Lee's Ferry in the neighborhood of six o'clock in the morning and had no difficulty until we got about four miles above Lee's Ferry, where the channel was so swift that we had quite a bit of difficulty getting through. We negotiated it by keeping close to the shore and the 1724 man with me helped with the car. It took us about two hours to make one hundred and fifty feet at that place. After that we had difficulties running on sand bars, but as we were going up-stream we did not have a great deal of trouble getting off them because we would not hit them hard enough and the current being against us it would push us back down and off the bar. We were two and a half days going up, and there were some places where we would make a mile and hour and then other places where we could take advantage of the eddies and make pretty good time. In lots of places there are eddies where the current goes upstream along the bank and the water is deep enough for a boat to take advantage of these eddies. Generally you have difficulty getting out of the eddies because you are apt to get caught in a pocket; that in, 1725 on a sand bar, so that you may have to come back down and get out of the pocket and shallow water all around the head of it, so that you would have to go back and get out of the pocket and them come |