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Show a.. A A. Jr. ' THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday September 7, 1988 - Page 12 the rugged formation known as Comb Ridge. over Riding the San Juan River by Doris Valle Each year river rafting delights many thousands of water loving sportsmen and women on rivers all over the world. On the San Juan River with Wild River Expeditions out of Bluff, a river trip is more than an outdoor adventure. Its a journey back through time. The San Juan River begins as a trickle near Pagosa Springs, Colorado, eventually meander-in- As we floated down the river, the canyon walls grew higher until they towered on either side of us presenting a panoramic strata covering billions of years of geological formations. We stopped to examine a layer of a marine life period and saw fossils imbedded in the gray backed flute player. Some of the drawings have faded with time and others, for one reason or another have been damaged. The deserted dwellings of the Anasazis can be seen in the side canyons. Our hikes to the ruins we visited on our trip were led by crumbling rock. The Mules Ear, the highest point in the Comb Ridge formation, was a dark gray pointed mass to our an anthropologist and National Park historian, Ranger Dan Murphy. The imposing structure of River left. southward through House and the rounded mound There were rapids, too, of Southeastern Utah, joining the of the Great Kiva came alive as course, and sand waves. The mighty Colorado River as it Murphy described the ways of rafts danced over the turbulent flows through Arizona, those who lived and died there water. The same river, which at California and into Mexico. in days long gone. night was a placid silver sheet rafters drift the More recent history lived as Traditionally and which glowed peacefully Utah stretch of the San Juan we listened to the stories of golden in the morning sun, was from Montezuma Creek, by way author David Lavender, who a playful muddy maelstrom, of Bluff and Mexican Hat, and has written some 30 books romping over the rocks when make their way to Paiute Farms devoted to western history and the river bed dipped on its way or Clay Hills Crossing and the river running. As Lavender the vast man made expanse of Lake spoke, we could feel the terror of through wecanyons. were surrounded Always Powell. Mrs. Barton who waited for by an awe inspiring vista of Any segment of that trip is a help one day when the familys cliffs and canyon walls and memorable experience but the trading post had been raided sand dunes frozen in time, of a Bluff to Mexican Hat stretch is and her husband and his broad spectrum of colors dramatically colorful, guaran- brother killed by a marauding impossible to describe teed to enchant the traveler. I band of Indians. The building orange, rust, red, gray, know, because I recently where it all happened is still charcoal, lavender and the climbed aboard a Wild Rivers there sleeping quietly in the palest of blues, yellow and dark flotilla sunshine on a knoll beside the boat, and a five-raf- t gold and every shade in made its way downriver. river. between. The magnificent A thunderstorm had brought Near the remains of Bartons shapes, the natural sculptures water and sand down the rivers Trading Post, a long scar on the formed over the billions of tributaries and we floated on a cliffside marks San Juan Hill years, could never be duplicated Mormon au settlers where cafe lait early shimmering by the hand of man. No artists surface. The deep blue skies blasted out rock to build a crude palette could capture the beauty overhead were punctuated with road for their wagons to pass of the pictures nature created puffy blue white cumulus clouds. A Great Blue Heron rose lazily from a sand bank, disturbed by our passing. Our first stop was at the petroglyphs called the Kachina Panel where the Anasazi vCOMPUTER SERVICES Indians left marks of their passing. There are dozens of Computer Survival Guide petroglyphs on the river cliffs, some in large displays and Dedicated to keeping you running. 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