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Show Everywhere farther up from the ford swam in places. could see, the river has many rocks, and big ones; hence, whenever some party should find it necessary it would be better to ford it before to cross we this it, good on horses. Floyd INTERPRETATION RESEARCH AND leagues. five Today A. O'Neil and Gregory C. Thompson of Santa Rosalia up Jerry appears to go from the campsite at a point about a half Mesa Battlement of Gulch and across the top to a place where it Creek Alkalai down then mile east of Castle Peak, There the River. the Colorado of bank the south on reaches the The path plain point of the crossing. The party camped the Colorado River at approximately one and one The day's total was five fourth miles downstream from the Una bridge. measurement ten and one-half mi les or 2. I miles per which is trail on turns northward to the the north bank of leagues league. by RESEARCH METHODS not traverse this section of the trail, but plan to do so The trail and campsite were established on in the next sixty information furnished by G. Clel I Jacobs who examined the trail after We did we had days.' cooperatively not fit Escalante's decided that the Kimbal I-Wal lace Creek route did description. September On the 6th we set out westward from the meadow and Rio de San Rafael for a settlement). 6 (where there We went half are no prospects league downstream, valleys to the west a through some narrow leaving the river to the south, to the north west a quarter of a league, and through deep passes without rock for a league and a quarter west by west northwest for about a ml Ie and, after having gone nearly two more leagues westward over broken terrain with some stone and a lot of small pear cactus, went down to a little val ley through which a sma I I river At its edge, next to the only of good water flows. that there is, and at eleven in the morning, poplar another half northwest I. the area writing this original report, Dr. O'Nei I has re-checked reported (February 26, 1976) that he is now quite thoroughly Since and convinced that the route described here -82- is correct. (Editor) |
