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Show Record Rainbow. We never encounter any real difficulty on account of sand bars or crossing bars with these small boats, although occasionally, even with small boats, you will touch a sand bar; but those boats draw so little water that they are easily pulled 2274 off. I am not familiar with the term " crossing bar". When we do got on a bar with one of the small boats, we get off by either backing up a little or working our way across, according to the situation. I have not found it necessary to get out of the boat in order to get off a sand bar. I have not been troubled much by sand bars between Warm Creek and Lee's Ferry, but have en-countered a good many sand waves in that lower stretch. My last 2275 trip to the river was in September, 1928. I do not engage in general advertising of my tourist trips and have no regular month for making them, but April and September are good months for the trips and I have conducted such trips in July, August and October. On. one trip I had three boats and lost one of them. The water was considerably above normal and more or less turbulent; just before we reached Lee's Ferry two of the members of our party who 2276 were in one of the boats became careless, ran into sand waves and capsized. The boat turned over backwards and came down bottom side up. At Lee's Ferry my parties are met my automobiles and go overland to Kanab sometimes and at other times Flagstaff. 2277 Before we start down on a trip I look into the question of the qualifications of the men and women who are in my party. This summer I took a fifteen mile trip in Labyrinth Canyon on the 2278 Green River. The boat was owned by Mr. Tidwell of Green River, Utah, and he had been using it on the green river from the town of Green river down to the point where we commenced our boat trip. It was a small row boat, sixteen feet long, and with only two men 2279 in the boat went down without any trouble. I saw no other people or boats on the Green River on that visit. The country through which I passed to reach the Green River on this occasion was canyon country, used principally for a sheep range and without many |
