Show Group Leaves for Extended River Trip to Glen Canyon BY CLARENE MEADOWS CLARENE-MEADOWS MEADOWS As a prelude to the Canyon Country River Marathon to beheld be beheld beheld held on June 15 sixteen river rats left l Moab loab oab on Sunday for fora a thirteen-day thirteen trip down the Colorado river to Kane Katie Creek near Glen Canyon The boats men and women have booked passage on two 28 23 foot Coot rubber rafts with Utah's best best- known river river rat rat Bus Hatch of Vernal To the group time means means nothing They will drift along at ten miles per hour except except ex ex- for time spent battling the rapids The fast water will first be encountered 68 miles down the river from Moab in Cataract Canyon This canyon is full Cull of ot white watter waiter according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Bus Hatch The party will cover a mile course on the Colorado By auto this trip takes miles They will be met at Kane creek by other members of their party in cars Kane creek is approximately approximately 15 miles mlles from the Glen Canyon dam site Jack Pogue local Moab boatman boatman boatman boat boat- man will meet the group at lute for a refuel job Bus Hatch owner of the boats is aided on the trip by Allan from Mapleton and Glad I Ross of Vernal A native of Vernal Hatch has navigated fam famous us rivers all over the world for Cor thirty years yem years He has travelled the Colorado many times This is the first expedition expedition expedition tion to leave from Moab however how how- ever every Other intermountain white waters to be run by Hatch include Include in include In- In clude Idaho's Snake and Salmon rivers and Utah's Green Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado and Yampa rivers A year ago Hatch took a Lowell Thomas Thom Thom- as group to Pakistan and led the first party to conquer conquer conquer con con- quer the Indus river Thirteen of the sixteen vacationers vacationers vaca vaca- on the expedition come from Denver two from Crom Nebraska ka and one from Delaware Five of the sixteen members are wo wo- wo- wo men Some of the group have been on as many as five trips with Hatch What attracts such groups as this to the rivers The exquisite exquisite exquisite site beauty and peace of the canyons and the thrill of the white water the the guests say The first 68 miles of the trip cover the same ground as that scheduled for the river marathon to begin at Green River on June 15 |