Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . arge followed those; we might be no more fortunatethan the others, and a delay after once giving a signalwould cause more anxiety than no signal at all wethought, and the fire was not built. Particular attention was paid to the loading of theboats the next morning. The moving-picture film wastucked in the toes of our sleeping bags, and the protectingbags were carefully laced. We were not going to takeany chances in this next plunge — the
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico, with a foreword by Owen Wister;new edition with (72 plates) from photographs by the author and his brother . arge followed those; we might be no more fortunatethan the others, and a delay after once giving a signalwould cause more anxiety than no signal at all wethought, and the fire was not built. Particular attention was paid to the loading of theboats the next morning. The moving-picture film wastucked in the toes of our sleeping bags, and the protectingbags were carefully laced. We were not going to takeany chances in this next plunge — the much-talked-ofentrance to the granite gorge. A half-hours run and adash through one violent rapid landed us at the end ofthe Hance Trail — unused for tourist travel for severalyears — with a few torn and tattered tents back inthe side canyon down which the trail wound its half hoped that we would find some of the prospec-tors who make this section their winter home eitherat the Tanner or the Hance Trail, but there was no sign ofrecent visitors at either place, unless it was the numerousburro tracks in the sand. These tracks were doubtless. SIGNALLING OUR CANYON HOME 209 made by some of the many wild burros that roam allover the lower plateaus in the upper end of the GrandCanyon. After a careful inspection of the Hance Rapid wewere glad the signal fire was not built. It was a nastyrapid. While reading over our notes one evening wewere amused to find that we had catalogued differentrapids with an equal amount of fall as good, bad, ornasty, the difference depending nearly altogether onthe rocks in the rapids. The good rapids were noth-ing but a descent of big water, with great waves, — forwhich we cared little, but rather enjoyed if it was nottoo cold, — and with no danger from rocks; the badrapids contained rocks, and twisting channels, butwith half a chance of getting through. A nasty rapidwas filled with rocks, many of them so concealed in thefoam that it was o
Size: 1387px × 1801px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidthroughgrand, bookyear1915
