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Show I- s 1.7.4'4.-"- " . Att.:7'144'4y'4.17 t., ' ' - . ... , ) ' 'ZAL' ', ! I' i --- -- " , .,. - ' 1,, - t,, kb, :)',' 1 - wtaiN. ' he says.- "It'sni never, learn a riverYou -. He ihould know. His "peace-time- " stand water.is job measuring the San Juan: its flow, speed, depth, and the amount;of silt it carries. He feels that if. the river were measured for three hundred and fifty years. 'there woutd be no repeat cycle. Its face and behavior .change from day to day. Boulders,'.weighing tons,' slide down the cliffsides with .a crash. into the, water, starting new rapids. The amount of sand carried may change the' channels. Snagged .trees lurk beneath the sursandbars appear. sandwaves face; unexpected start anytime, anywhere.- - The' river may rise five feet in an hour, twenty-fiv- e 'feet in a night. 'So, if You shbuldwateh,Norman veer from one bank to the other. then, soon. take to the middle of the stream, and a little later come back to the first shoreline, 'you realize that he understands' water. He studies it every minute, and one glance downstream gives him a volume of information.. The Other boatmen faithfully folli4 the, course he sets.. In getting just a little way off they have sometimes found themselves in 'difficulties from which it took hours to extricate themselves. For thefirst ten minutes we had fairly smooth . It - :- - '., -' - '''k 1'II It ' :: reit ''. -' 4' I'. t. .2. -. - ' If1 - ....Ica, Pretty Diane Mayes of . California loved the meadows .and the dizzy 4 ' heights 1 . sc i ' (3, ' ; ilve40 , 4 1 :s'''''t 0'4mo - They are light in weight; easily maneuverable (the center of balance it almost in the center of the boatthey pivot so' easily that they can be turned more quickly than a canoe); and they are safe (you cannot overturn them). Each is constructed of a single sheet of of an inch plywood, 16 feet long by thick, put together with 2000 cadmium plated screws. This is stronger than aluminum. The bottoms are reinforced with oak strips against the scraping of rocks and sandbars. - -' V,.:::rsl',7,-'- 1,- 1 ,. -, higher till they reached their climaxat least four then broke in angry white spume. that cascaded .down their sides. Frank Wright. our boatman, turned the boat sideways to. take them. With the utmost skill he avoided head-ocollisions. and slid us over the crests of the smalltT Paves. and down into the troughsup And down,'upand down, with a cradle-lik- e rocking. fairly smooth. choppy, or heaving, as the case might be. Sometimes these waves come up in a "V" formation, and at the si3ex they may catch a boat feetand n and spank it very hard on both sides. All at once it seemed that the waves were coming at us from every direction. I saw one tower over my head. , Instantcy it broke, drenching sunhat and clothing and slapping violently against my face. I felt the water in my eyes and ears and mouth. It was an exhilarating surprise. I supposed I would catch cold and develop a little sinus trouble. But, to our astonishment, almost by the timz we had bailed out the boat, we were dry andno ill effects followed these duckings that continued from time to time, in the bow, in the stern, or perhaps broad? 4 side. which San in occur waves the Sand Juan, only is the fastest big river in he United States and carrieS the largest amount of silt. It alone is responsible for more than half of the sediment with which the Colorado is filling Lake, Mead at an , ,, ps - iI---,..'...';.- 0 . ... Iplae7'-- -- ' -,-- ,, 4 i.,.. -- " t, - , : ., .4 -- N ,4 , - - 7- - ....0.--- alarming rate. Some of this sand collects on the floor of the r:ver in wavy hillocks, and the water, displaced by these impediments, has to rise.. In so: doing, it starts thr contrary sandwaves that roll upstream Norman says that because of the choppy motion and sandwave is equal to a heavy water, a three-foo- t t ocean wave. On rare occasions the sandficult to reach .twenty-fiv- e feet, being as five-eight- 4.814 "FN. .444. A IL THIS f t e.... , . we knew, and we were not afraid. ts did look expendable Yet, these against the wide, powerful river, and as we pushed off in the cocoa-brow- n current, three passengers and an oarsman to each boat, I felt like Alice in Wonderland, about to embark on the most incalculable adventures. Norman and his boat always lead the way. As ,...norn. semi-catarac- nine-foo- .,, -. c- -- 6, ,4,..,, ,,. . .. . , ...- - 0 '41 ,. through the Goosenecks. the most noted intrenched meandering in the world. n where the San Juan winds in a giant (Continued on page 61 double-hairpi- Norman Nevins in one of his specially built boats - - ' " , ... 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