Green River trip, July 1956

File — Box: 1, Folder: 10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

[note: captions in this folder are from article pages]
1: "Between rapids there were many miles of smooth sluggish water." {**}
2-3: "Generally the passengers hiked along the rocky shore while the boatmen were running the rafts through the rapids. This was done to lighten the boats in the boulder-strewn channel, rather than because of any hazards involved." {**}
4: "For variation, some of the passengers swam part of the canyon." {**}
5: "Robert and Katherine Danse took their kayak through Lodore." {**}
6: "Ray Simpson's kayak was wrecked in lower Disaster FallsBand when Glen Johnson went to the rescue he nearly lost his kayak. The water was only shoulder deep and no one was hurt." {**}
7: Wrecked kayak
8: "Occasionally one of the rafts would collide with a boulder with no harm to either passengers or boat." {**}
9: "The big bridge pontoon lumbered through the rapids without hazard." {**}

Dates

July 1956

Conditions Governing Access

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