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Show Record bar where two or three of our boats landed. After you get off the sand at that point there is a fairly deep, narrow channel. We had some difficulty just below Double Bowknot, where I think five of the boats were stuck on sand bars, and at various place down the river we had some trouble. At many places our cars 1817 touched bottom in rowing. At Double Bowknot several of the boys had to get overboard to dislodge the boats; and also at the place fourteen miles below Green River, two boys had to get over and lift the boat off the sand bar. I think there were other times than the two I have mentioned, but they are the only two 1818 specific instances that I can recall. We encountered no difficulty between the mouth of the Green and the cataracts. There 1819 is plenty of water through that stretch. Mr. Rodin's description of our trip through Cataract Canyon is about the same as mine would be. We had only one upset in Cataract Canyon and we ran 1820 every rapid except the rapid at the head of Dark Canyon. We emerged from Cataract Canyon the day after Thanksgiving and stayed that night or the next night at Hite. The water is rather uncertain through there. The surface kind of boils; it looks all right, them the first thing you know your boat goes out side-ways and goes around in a circle in whirlpools. A few miles below there is Bull Frog Rapid, then there is Whirlpool Rapid. In one of these two rapids, I forget which, there are rock ledges running across. We had boats stuck at or above that place on gravel when two or three men had to get overboard and dislodge 1821 them. I think it was right at one of those rapids, some one hundred and fifty or one hundred and forty miles from Lees Ferry, that two boats grounded; and two boats grounded at the canyon which leads up to the Natural Bridge. We were not grounded right at Bull Frog Rapid; I think it was above it. Below the cataracts the channel is always braided where the river spreads out. I think we encountered this braided channel at one place above Hite and at another point some ten or fifteen miles below Hite. There are two or three such places, I think, perhaps four. |