Show I Hairier H m r Dodge D dge Party Arrives s I In Green River Via the Water By Mr Mrs Edwin L. L I Green River r The six women am and ami even Cleven men of the Homer Dodge Dodte boating bonting party arrived at atthe atthe atthe the Hastings ranch 7 miles mites north Of h here re Friday evening August 27 71 Mr and Mrs Logan friends of the Dodges took a load of Green River melons up U to welcome the boaters boaters' safe journey The party of oC men and women from varied walks of life lite had put 2 Hatch rubber boats 2 canoes canoes can can- cap oes and lInd 3 fold Cold boats or Alaskan Into the Green river at Ouray Utah August 17 They spent a wonderfully relaxing ten days Flays In Desolation canyon they said Dr Owen Wolf Noll said Mrs Ruth Stein Steinway way had talked of swimming and the party knew she meant It the first time she stepped from one of the rubber boats Into the ri river river river ri- ri ver with all aU of ot her clothes on Mrs Steinway came up swimming swimming swim swim- ming with the stroke of a veteran veteran veteran vet vet- eran he mused The leaders of the expedition were able to find caves to keep out of the r rain ln which hit them at Florence Forence Creek camp The others came out wet when they tried to keep out the waler wa wa- water water ter ler with pup tents and sheets of plastic from over their lug lug- luggage luggage gage The rain doused the forest fire which had been burning near t Florence creek point for tw two weeks James Hurst and wife landed by pontoon plane twice for lunch with the boaters I I Dr Nolt had his canoe swamp swamp- fd rd rt by waves at Coal Coat creek ra ra- pid The canoe wedged between tw two boulders beneath the surface surface surface sur sur- face of the river The men were two an a half hours salvaging It and the equipment which it carried Dr thinks the canyons and rapids should be marked marled with signs so river runners run rum I ners would know where they were when running the stream The river party was organized ed by Dr Homer Dodge Burlington Burling Burling- ton Vermont who has canoed I j the the Green Green from from Vernal Utah to the junction of the Green and Colorado and all aU but the Cataracts Catar Cata Cataracts acts acta of the Colorado to Lake Lak Mead Other River Rats hats on the trip were his wife and their theirOn son On Dr Norton Dodge economics economics economics econ econ- professor and In his hI own right of College Park Maryland Mrs Mra Ruth Steinway Long Lake Mass and her son and his wife Mr and Mrs Th Theodore odore Steinway Long Island Ny NV piano builders Mr and Mrs Leland Brown and Esther Cline CIne Burlington Vermont Dr Owen Noll and son Ion Richard Io To w wa we ty C tit Iowa owa Dory Rainsford of Washington bC DC D.C. and Peter Riley of ot th the British Embassy In Washington ton DC D.C. Don and n Bus I Hatch of Vernal accompanied I the party Most of ot the party fi flew W back to Vernal for a run of ot Ladore canyon canyon canyon can can- yon of ot the Green river Mrs Dodge bodge visited at the Bedier re re feI Saturday an took a train trait for the east that evening 4 |