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Show Record other, you encounter your difficulties in navigating these riv-ers because you have no channel. Ordinarily you find the chan- 2350 el on the outside of the loop. I was unable to discern the deepest water by observation because the water is so evenly dis-tributed over a sand bar that there is no channel anywhere. We en-countered those difficulties with channel crossings daily; some-times several times a day, and marry times we would wade around to try to find a deeper place, and there have been times when you 2351 get on a sand bar that you couldn't find a place. It is a great deal more difficult to got a keel boat off a sand bar than a flat boat. going through Cataract Canyon we struck numerous rocks in the rapids, but only portaged one rapid. I think it was Rapid No. 55, which is in the book there, and was locally known as the sixteenth cataract. We got over it nicely; I struck a rock and my boat went completely under the water, but it came up to the surface and there was no trouble at all. Each of us had life preservers and never ran a rapid without having them on. Lots of times we wouldn't take off our life preservers between rapids. If we were starting out of smooth water we probably would not put our life preservers on until we reached the first rapid. 2352 We did not wear life preservers on the Green River. The water in Narrow Canyon is deep and narrow and still; I do not think the river is more than one hundred feet anywhere in Narrow Canyon and that is pretty narrow for the Colorado River. The water there is so still and quiet because it is so deep. We had a six-teen foot pole and pushed it down in several places without tou- 2353 ching bottom. From Narrow Canyon to Hite we again encountered the old conditions; at North Wash there was a bar crossing, where there is only one channel through, and that is one place in Glen Canyon where the channel has always remained. On the trip I made there this month that channel was in the same place. I made this trip in 1914 and remained at Hite and Glen Canyon until 1915; went back again in 1916 and came out that year. I was in the |
