Found insideTo enter a hole in a raft was to risk flipping and flinging passengers into the maw of the hole, ... Numerous holes lurked in the rapids of Cataract Canyon. Found inside – Page 9Cataract Canyon of the Colorado is deep and narrow . ... A gentleman by the name of James White declared before his death some years ago that he made a trip on the Colorado in 1867 — that it was forced on him as the only ... There , under the cover of night , they made a raft of driftwood lashed together with their ropes . Whose Story Is This? is a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age.” —The Guardian “Solnit’s passionate, shrewd, and hopeful critiques are a road map for positive change.” ... Found inside – Page 29Canoeing, Kayaking, Rowing, Rafting Verne Huser ... He knew Cataract Canyon well and led Explorer Scout trips through Glen Canyon when he was seventy ... Found inside – Page 81No one had ever floated the river through Cataract Canyon at such a high level . ... Many a person has ended up flipping a raft and swimming some of those rapids , including myself , and a few have ... a death grabbing hole at the bottom . Found insideWhat they were looking upon was the Grand Canyon of the Fraser, ... turns and three distinct cataracts separated by comparatively smooth stretches. Found inside – Page 89Life and Death Along the Colorado River David Owen ... which is the departure point for most modern-day Grand Canyon raft trips: Lees Ferry is still the ... " "If We Had a Boat tells the story of the Green from 1825 to the present. In this heavily illustrated book, Mike Milligan has captured the still developing story of one of those remote, but no longer secluded, corners of the Colorado Plateau. Found inside – Page 62... Cataract Canyon and a 60 - year - old describe it . ” passenger was swept downstream to Rafting the Colorado has become one his death . of America's ultimate vacation trips . In Ride : The environmental effects of 1956 , only 55 hardy souls ... Found inside – Page 186Coping with the unexpected death of our grown-up daughter Barbara A. Wilson, ... to the harsh life on the Altiplano, used the canyon for agriculture. Found inside – Page 104At 2,000 cfs this created a river that was not only impossible to run — it was death defying to portage . ... Instead , we'd spend hours portaging the raft aside long , unrunnable cataracts , then the canyon would wall up and we'd have to paddle ... Found inside – Page 549The Grand Canyon is without question one of the most recognized and spectacular landforms ... Bureau of Ethnology beginning in 1880 until his death in 1902. Walled off from the outside world with eleven shell-shocked clients and miles of Colorado River whitewater ahead, Mandy’s nerves threaten to unravel when she learns that Alex’s death was not the work of a homicidal grizzly. Found insideThis is a Class 1000 Rapids of a memoir and I urge you to take the ride” (John Hodgman, author of Vacationland). Perfect for fans of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. "A confluence of thrills, history, and mystery as twisty as the Colorado River." —MICKI BROWNING, author of Shadow Ridge When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, ... Found insideIn reality, he could have made his way out of the canyon (Glen Canyon) in a ... to have passed through the forty-one miles of Cataract Canyon's turmoil, ... Found insideAustralians come to the river to tempt death, badgering their guides to take ... Then it was on to Moab, Utah, for a raft trip down Cataract Canyon on the ... Found inside – Page 7The bighorn of Death Valley . U.S. Natl . Park Serv . Fauna Ser . No. 6. 242pp . DISCUSSION The presence of people in riverboats in Cataract Canyon did not preclude desert bighorn sheep from using the ... The ewes monitored in this study seldom traveled far from Cataract Canyon . ... use and potential disturbances of desert bighorn sheep to conscientious boaters and commercial rafting outfitters may ... Found inside – Page 155... was the first to face the ominous whitewater in Cataract and Grand Canyons, ... were not the reason for engaging in their whitewater rafting trips. Found inside – Page 52The Big Drops were heralded almost exclusively in every piece of literature I had skimmed about Cataract Canyon. Terrified as I was about Geoff's proposed ... Found inside – Page 25Four days had elapsed since they embarked on the frail raft ; it was now August 28 . ... nor had fall or cataract prevented their safe advance . Found inside – Page 22WALLACE STEGNER Stegner's descriptions of the river and canyon scenery were far better than Darrah's , as Stegner had ... almost 100 years after his death , a bumper crop of five new major Powell works came off the press ( and more on the way ) . ... White clung to his raft for another ten days , occasionally flipped over or washed from the raft in rapids . ... men encountered the fury of Cataract Canyon where White's tale , according to most printed versions , described smooth sailing . Found inside21 Spine-Chilling Adventures on the Edge of Death John Goddard. LIFEGOAL#202: Film White-Water Raft Trip Through the Grand Canyon ... Found insideBut he remained firm in his belief that he could have run every rapid in Grand Canyon. ... trips on Lake Powell as it was filling, noting the changes that were taking place, lamenting the death of the beautiful canyon ... In 1972 Elwyn fulfilled a dream of forty-nine years by boating the one section he had not helped survey, Cataract Canyon. He did this riding a thirty-three-foot raft with Tag-a-long Tours of Moab, Found inside – Page 732The echo of that scream was looking , down the river , came from the raft . ... the raft . Then he asked the colonel . turned to look back , " A cataract , I heard , ” Loyal said . ... If we're the river banks had grown much higher . wrecked there , we shall be scalded to The raft was indeed entering a canyon , death like a lot of hogs . Found inside – Page 158In 1989 I was on a raft trip on the Colorado River through the Cataract Canyon. ... After her death, I had been told to pay attention to the messages that ... Found inside – Page 25As yet they had seen no natural bridge spanning the chasm , nor had fall or cataract prevented their safe advance . But about 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th they heard the deep roar of a waterfall in front . They felt the raft agitated , then ... Found inside – Page 93Lee's Canyon Residence Was Brief Much of romance is attached to Lee's residence on the Colorado . ... its canyons and how , for a time , he was in seclusion among the Hava - Supai Indians in the remote Cataract Canyon , to ... In the summer of 1877 , Ephriam K. Hanks was advised by President Brigham Young to buy the ferry , but this plan fell through on the death of the ... The Lee log cabin showed that some of its logs originally had been used in some sort of raft or rude ferryboat . Found inside – Page 428May 11, 1995 Canyonlands National Park 37 RESCUED FROM 23 RAFT WRECKS OUT of the 54 private river-running permits issued for Cataract Canyon between May 11 ... Found inside – Page 392... Frank M. , 345 ; death of , 355 Brown's Hole , 63 , 108 , 112 , 135 , 196 Brown's Park , 63 , 196 Brown's party for Grand Canyon trip , 354 ; break up of , 357 Brown's provision raft lost , 350 Bruja , the , Hardy's vessel , 118 Buckskin Mountain , 304 ... engineer of the Explorer , 167 Carson , Kit , 127 Casa Grande , 82 , 87 Casas Grandes , 82 Castañeda , 35 Castilleia , Gaspar de , 17 Cataract Canyon , 179. If you are an historical aficionado of Colorado Plateau explorers and/or early river runs down the Colorado River or its tributaries then this book will definitely be of interest to you! Found insideI have brought Billy to meet Art and Allison shortly after the two - year anniversary of his wife Sue's death . They were boating in Cataract Canyon , a trip to celebrate twenty years of marriage , when a rapid upended the raft , tossing Sue head ... Fifteen-year-old Jessie and the other rebellious teenage members of a wilderness survival school team abandon their adult leader, hijack his boats, and try to run the dangerous white water at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Found inside – Page 25Four days had elapsed since they embarked on the frail raft ; it was now August 28. ... nor had fall or cataract prevented their safe advance . Found inside – Page 77yons, and the original Glen Canyon is the difference between life and death. ... then spent four days rafting through Cataract Canyon and Canyonlands ... Found inside – Page 137Death in Grand Canyon : Gripping Accounts of All Known Fatal Mishaps in the Most Famous of the World's Seven Natural Wonders ... So the men built a raft of zinc - lined boxes to tow the food down the sluggish waters of Labyrinth and Stillwater canyons ( the gradient here is only about 1.5 feet per mile ) . A week later Brown's crew rowed their boats onto the Colorado River flowing into Cataract Canyon . Found inside – Page 113For 16 miles in Cataract Canyon, the river drops 30 feet per mile. ... a giant eddy spun them in circles until a guided group pulled them aboard their raft. Found insideBottom, lest you get sucked into Cataract Canyon. ... In Death Valley, California, land managers have almost entirely eradicated tamarisk stands, ... Found insideWhen our Cataract Canyon rafting party pulled over in the afternoon to set up ... In fifteen to thirty days' time, I would starve in a lonely death as I ... Found insideA journey through time. Found insideFive-day Cataract Canyon whitewater rafting trip in Moab, Utah, ... with the exception of being a great dad, I couldn't predict my own death... LOL. From thousands of entrants, Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen. This lavishly produced edition features forty of Torjanac’s beautiful four-color illustrations, bringing Life of Pi to splendid, eye-popping life. Found inside – Page xiiHow to Explore the Canyons of the Great Southwest John Annerino ... the myth of the Lost Dutchman's gold , and more than fifty sinister deaths and murders . Found insideDeath, Heartbreak, and Triumph in the Wild Rick and Amy Rinehart ... and kayaks in Canyonlands National Park's Cataract Canyon either flipped or foundered ... Historian and naturalist Roderick Nash pays tribute to some of the great white-water rapids in the western United States and to the men and women who have run them. Found inside – Page 394... 348 Brown , Frank M. , 345 ; death of , 355 Brown's Hole , 63 , 108 , 112 , 135 , 196 Brown's Park , 63 , 196 Brown's party for Grand Canyon trip , 354 ; break up of , 357 Brown's provision raft lost , 350 Bruja , the , Hardy's vessel , 118 Buckskin ... 127 Casa Grande , 82 , 87 Casas Grandes , 82 Castañeda , 35 Castilleia , Gaspar de , 17 Cataract Canyon , 179 , 213 , 278 , 350 ; driftwood , 284 ; inscription ... 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