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Show WINTER 2013 UHQ pp 4-90_UHQ Stories/pp.4-68 12/5/12 9:38 AM Page 17 trail, and the resupply party met up with the returning explorers.57 They reported that, after twelve days’ effort and wandering, Thompson had successfully reached the point where the Dirty Devil met the Colorado. There, he left Dellenbaugh, Hillers, Fennemore, and Johnson to repair the Cañonita and float it down the Colorado to the Par ia. Thompson, accompanied by Dodds and Hattan, tur ned back towards Kanab, where they met Adair and the others who had been waiting nearly two weeks.58 On returning to Kanab, Thompson turned his attention to another important aspect of the second leg of the voyage: resupply in the Grand Canyon. He Isaac Haight. took Adair and Jones, along with five Paiutes, on a short exploration trip to the Kaibab Plateau looking for resupply routes into the Grand Canyon. From Thompson’s description, the group reached the Grand Canyon on July 17 near what today is known as Monument Point, north of and several thousand feet above a bend in the Colorado River. Thompson determined their location to be due west of Mt. Trumbull and nine air miles from Kanab Wash, a location known as the “Pa Ute” trail down to the river at which “we can take rations in without trouble.”59 Willie Johnson soon arrived in Kanab from the mouth of the Paria to report that his four-man group had successfully floated the Cañonita down the Colorado from the Dirty Devil through Glen Canyon to the Paria Crossing. The three remaining members of that g roup—Hillers, Dellenbaugh, and Fennemore—along with Clem Powell and Hattan (who later traveled over from Kanab) waited nearly a month for Major Powell and Thompson to arrive.60 57 “Journal of Stephen Vandiver Jones,” 133–36. “Diary of Almon Harris Thompson,” 83–88. 59 Ibid., 90–91. 60 “Diary of Almon Harris Thompson,” 91; Dellenbaugh, Canyon Voyage, 209–14. 58 17 LdS CHuRCH HISTORy LIBRARy THE POWELL SuRVEy |
