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Show Record rapid there due to material brought out by salt wash in its flood stages, and we had some trouble getting past that. 3926 After we got to the junction we turned up the Green River and traveled a distance of 3 miles. It took us 3 hours to do it. We were fighting shallows all the time. There just did not seem to be any place where we could run 50 yards straight ahead. We had the greatest amount of trouble finding a place to get the boat up the Green, and we finally decided that there was no use trying to get any farther, and turned around and came back that same day, and went up the Colorado as far as the Slide, where we camped that night. 3927 We stopped all day up the Slide on the 6th of August. On the 2nd day we started up, and it took us half and hour to get the boat past the rocky places at the mouth of Salt wash. We fi-nally had to virtually drag the boat 100 or 125 yards. We examined the Slide. It would be very difficult to give its age in years. It is what a geologist would call a very recent slide, but that might mean a hundred years, five hundred years or even a thousand years. The slide is a large mass of loose rock, in places 4 or 5 feet in diameter and on down to much finer material, which has fallen so near the upper part of the right back of the river, it has constricted the river's width to about 120 feet, and the water goes like a mill race through that little area. I would say from memory that the width of the river above and below 3928 the slide is 250 feet. The slide loose rock which now rests on what probably was the river bottom. There is no method known to geology whereby the age of the slide could be determined in years, 3929 but as geologists think, it is very recent. If there happened to be trees growing on it, you could possibly get an idea of the minimum age. There were trees along the edge of it, but there were none that I can recall that were actually growing on the slide itself. The next day, the 7th, we went from the Slide up the river to mile 22. In that stretch we grounded a few times. I do not recall specifically the places. It took us 9 hours to go the |