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Show going up Tuttle Draw and then swinging southeast northeast and then southeast and northeast again to reach the Escalante's riotation of climbing the of San Fel This Russon has the route and then campsite difficult hil I after cl imbing ignores ipe. the across likely is it We think the hi I I. has them Bolton river. going almost due east that they passed through the site of the present town of Nucla, reached the San Miguel site of the substation, and continued along the river to the San Felipe. at about the campsite of RESEARCH METHODS Most of the 97 between From Highway 90 turned off we from Colorado and Nucla and Naturita A mi route. Escalante enabled to photograph the river and most any place along an excel lent stopping the in place. On the 23rd La Sierra we left EI Pedro), went up a de los Tabehuachis by the leagues which, habited Yutas of 90 east roads to get Highway of Naturita. closer to the given by probable campsite although al narrow val ley could have provided the directions the most 23 August Rio de San from Colorado Highway check and leage river and the actual us unpaved several on be examined could day for this route de San Fel ipe (on EI hil I, and along the foot of (thus cal led for being in Paraje this name) because of the turns we we traveled for made, would four be We already had left the said two east from San Fel ipe. in La Sierra de las Grullas, rises which Pedro de San Rio north after the one continues branch which I at its sma I cal led Sierra de la westl and west unti I the sma I I salt beds so-called next to it the Yutas hereabouts river. sized Plata--[crossed out: flows north it joins that of the Dolores near Sierra de la Sal--for their which, they informed us, It is a medium themselves. provide· from as stopped to rest near a small source of ever-flowing coming down from the sierra, and on a level sagebrush stretch which has a narrow val ley with good pasturage at its southern end, and forming ahead of it something On top of this are the ruins of a like a low ridge. sma I I and ancient pueblo, the houses of which seem We water to have been made of fashioned Yutas have the stone with which a weak and crude the Tabehuachi rampart. Here pasturage which had become scarce since EI Paraje de la Asuncion by EI Rio de Dolores unti I today, for the earth was scorched and dry enough to show that no rain had fal len al I summer. once more we found the mounts somel by afternoon, ceased within a hour, and we continued our day's march by ascending La Sierra de los Tabehuachis along It started to rain little more than an -F5- |
