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Show Creek through a narrow val ley, over a sma I I plateau then into the sandstone. Finally it emerges on a low bench At a point opposite the mouth of Kai feet above Navajo Creek. of rocks and logs aids the traveler in reaching the approaches Navajo down about switchbacks cut fifty bito Wash a rough dugway (Rusho-Crampton Report.) dugway is mentioned in the (The segment of the Dom i nguez-Esca I ante tra i I between Esca I ante d i a ry. Padres Butte and the confluence of Navajo and Kaibito creeks had been con Under sidered too remote and too ruqqed for any researchers prior to 1975. under it was examination of Rusho an on-the-ground the leadership of W.L. On May 2 and 3, Rusho and Don 1975. taken during the first week of May creek floor." This Cecala hiked the entire distance.) From the floor of Navajo Creek at the mouth of Kaibito Wash the Spanish party cl imbed out of the canyon over a steep, rocky route between the two In 1975 Dr. C. Gregory Crampton found that "The tra i I streams. goes up close to the canyon wall of Kaibito Creek •. At a point about a quarter of a mile from the canyon floor a sUbstantial amount of work has been done on One mi Ie from the the trail through some flinty limestone ledges .•. ••.. ••• and qoes up a canyon floor the trai I turns abruptly to the north-northeast south-southeast wide cleft for about a half a mile and then swings abruptly This is the and ascends a very steep slickrock slope for about 150 yards. " of the user times some In more recent steepest part of the trail ..•• "The steps in the rocks at th i s poi nt. miles three trail above and feet 800 trail tops out at a point approximately (Rusho the of mark rock slabs two from Navajo Creek; place." upright Crampton Report.) An occasional rock cairn marks the trai I through this Once out of the canyon the Spaniards traveled some eight difficult section. Enroute they mi les over much better terrain, across Cedar Tree Bench. buttes referred to two smal I the and Skizzi Sma I I Butte Tsai Rock, passed south-southeast four miles some I was I The November Escalante. campsite by of Tsai Skizzi Rock where the fathers found good pasturage but no water. It had been a long difficult day. They named the place San Proto. tra i I has picked November terrain. The 12 out a seri es of found the travelers fact that they making good had to break ice to time over relatively easy a spring water at get approaching winter weather northeast of present Kaibito gave warning of The weather grew colder as the company advanced; Miera, especially, was affected by it. During the afternoon the fathers stopped long enough to The bui Id a fire to warm the mapmaker for fear he would freeze to death. route was generally to the south, veering on occasion to the southwest. After crossing Kaibito Wash to the west bank about a mi Ie north of present expedition continued southward across the Kaibito Plateau, By steering a course west present location of Kaibito. thus avoided Kaibito and Mesa of south the company passed west of White north. the from that to mesa Being eager to contact Canyon which drains be in the region, when believed to friendly Cosninas (present Havasupais) mi les south of Kaibito five some fork the trai reached a in I the padres fork left would have given whereas to the the one the chose right they them a more direct route to the Hopi vi I lages. Continuing southwest over a campsite cal led San Jacinto on the relatively open country they reached north edge of a sma I I butte some four miles northeast of Preston Mesa. Kaibito vi I lage passing through the the -22- |
