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Show it would have been apparent that t the reports of the Muniz brothers, Since the al low no fording would sheer wal Is of lower Glen Canyon need to did miles upstream, they nearest probable ford was sti I I several shortcuts. take could but Obviously, close to the rim of the canyon e plce. no! travel path. Leaving they would have to head the deep tributary canyons along I I to the north hi the around wound the rocky ravine at Dominguez Pass, they They fol lowed and then descended to the very deep sand of the val ley floor. then headed a low cl to imb east turned a bench, for the val ley northward league, the shore of Lake on Powell. the toward northeast directly present Wahweap Lodge thir path led them down a gentle broad gulch containing many patches of They crossed present U. S. 89 about one-half mi Ie south of the From Mote I and passed just south of the Wahweap tra i I er vii I age. this point they could probably see that if they continued on they would reach Wahweap Creek where it flowed through a shal low, but rocky, sheer-wal led canyon. They therefore turned more to the north and crossed a low, rounded ridge, probably passing between the present Glen Canyon National Recreation Area headquarters and the Wahweap Lodge. Their sand dunes. Lake Powe I I present Wahweap Lodge the padres could see that they successfully headed Wahweap Canyon. Upon reaching the creek they found that they could cross it easily on the next day's travel. They therefore stopped for the night, naming their camp San Diego. )t was almost exactly I The campsite lies today under about on the present Utah-Arizona border. Just north of the had 200 feet of Lake Powel I the Wahweap The smal I identifiable water. lake The nearest shore of the is the site of Swim Beach. peaks that looked I ike "ruins of Castle Rock and other unnamed formations mesas as Wahweap Lodge. and a fortress" directly are across easf the Iy RESEARCH METHODS Dominguez Pass and I, 1973, W. the associated trai I were researched on several occasions. Rusho and Don Cecala climbed on foot from the Paria River about 1,000 vertical feet before exhaustion set in. Then on March 3D, 1974, these same two researchers ascended by a different route traversed alona the ridge, then descended Dominguez Pass al I the way to the River and ;n to Ferry. On 3, 1973, W. L. Rusho and C. Gregory Crampton took a Jeep from U. S. Highway 89 to the val ley of deep sand near Dominguez Pass. They then walked some distance to a point nearer the pass. On May 5, 1975, W. L. Rusho and Don Cecala made an aerial reconnaissance of the Lee's Ferry to Wahweap route. On October ee's L. Paria ?ctober The camps i te was actua I I Y boundry. his associates In 1957 rea bfore Impossible. fact was s light I Y north of +he present Utah-Ar j definitely determined by they conducted a thorough when the waters of Lake Powel I -166- rendered David E. zona Mi I ler and examination of the examination n on-the-ground |
