Show SPORTS FLASHBACKS River runners runners have a wild time traveling down the Green River The Green River has been used for countless river trips during the century An article about a river trip follows as it was printed In the Vernal Express on August 27 1931 PERILOUS BOAT TRIP MADE BY VERNAL PARTY ARRIVE RIVE AT JENSEN WEDNESDAY WED WED- Y ON ISO MILE TRIP HR THROUGH UGH GREEN RIVER ORGE JORGE BOAT TWICE ROREN VERY FEW HAVE IN FEAT t Traveling ISO miles mile's through reen River Gorge from laming aming Gorge in five days ho hooting ting rapids and being in swift water Bus nd Tom Hatch Frank Swain nd Royce Mowrey arrived a at athe ate he e Jensen bridge Wednesday cry ery much enriched with the thrilling rifling experience I Once in Ladore Canyon the turdy boat was overturned and though the provisions were ted led on so as not to be lost much muchas yas as taken down by the river In Shooting over rapids holes were twice knocked into the b bottom of the boat by rocks and the tile oars broken Stops were made made while repairs were under w way y The trip was was' started smarted at taming n ming aming Gorge Friday The bolt boat and crew were taken to this point in a truck by Bay BayH H Hatch Sufficient provisions were were taken on od on the trip to last several days in the event the themen themen themen men men were stranded IN N MANY PLACES the walls of the canyon were more than 2000 feet above the river and water falls 12 and fifteen feet high were encountered In Inmany Inmany many many places it was necessary to shoot hoot through narrow canyons where here it was impossible to get around round and rough water made it perilous rilous to travel f A supply of jerked venison was taken along which has been een laid in store l last st fall when the hunting season was open This provided a nutritious noonday noonday noon noon- day Jay meal when short stops were made Traveling was not attempted attempted at at- tempted at dark but from early morning until dusk the men utilized every minute in making the racking nerve-racking trip The trip is one of the most successful ever attempted and andis is attributed to the skill of themen the themen themen men in handling the boat in treacherous waters During recent years several attempts have been made to go o through the canyon with the result that boats have been wrecked and the occupants occupants' forced to swim or walk the remainder of the journey TilE THE GORGE scenery ri rivaled rivaled ri ri- any they had seen Driftwood Driftwood Drift Drift- wood was found thirty feet above the water line and wrecked boats railroad ties and other timber limber were found in places fifteen to twenty feet above the present level of the river Mountain sheep and beaver by the hundreds were seen been along the route Forest officials estimates have placed the number of mountain sheep in Utah at about 70 and through Ladore adore Canyon alone more than three hundred were seen After losing most of their provisions when the boat was capsized the themen themen themen men tried to rope a mountain sheep for food They trapped an an animal on the edge of a cliff and were about to capture it when it sprang into the air and jumped 35 feet down to another ledge and alighted on all four feet without injury to to itself The boat traveled at a pace of 35 miles an hour through the swift water and rapids and when it was overturned one of the men was thrown fifteen fe feet t tinto into the air For fo four r days the themen themen themen men subsisted on five pounds of jerked meat four four potatoes one onion and a tomato On the last day of the journey they were forced to make frequent rests due to exhaustion In shooting the rapids and swift water which constituted seventy five percent of the trip one man signaled from the front of the boat two men rowed and one man steered |