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Show - .-- . Imr""...1.1e."4"11.111."....1.111.1.16- t4,,In.ftlalidMkadROM, - . . I 1 , ' - ask Campbell, t'What would you at Porter's Ranch, the was admittedly say- - lher thances,',wttr01.,tumingthrocaredat-theprospects,...- ,. " successfully?" "If the first part of the trip is too "Only fifty,-- fifty," said the river guide. tough." she said, before steiiping into Ever since Miss Kibler had made the boat, "I may pass tip my week of ber decision to take the 'ireC trip this sketching it Rainbow Bridge and go .. i a-- . i t . , - ir',..,, - , -. ,,,72.- ,,m, ..-- .,,,, .', ,; , - 0 , - ,;,,,11-0- summer, even if she had to make st right through." alone, she had been met with such "Oh. you'll go on througkliaid ..,L...., I.:dubious reaction. Everyone tried, --- Farmin-YounI butter-!lie, s discourage her7"'anct' warned her MiaLIMIer Teliiierienctid in her innards on other occasions against it, right up to the time of her departure, with one exceptionan- - during-th- e trip, but that was the only bther woman. When she passed time she expressed-doub- t at the com,1 , "' ' r ...a;lar,,WeamilLthrough Hanksville, Utah. en route to pletion of her plans. '.7men ..J the river, Mrs. Ms Ecker told her, I They say a person on the river' "That would be a wonderful trip: learns more duririg the first day out TREACHEROUS is Colorodo and the a unpredictable, wish I could make it, too." The pros- - than-o- n the-reof the trip combined. midable antagonist for, any river runner: Miss Kibler is pective solo river runner almost kissed And Miss !Sibler managed to cram a one of the few persons ever to make the. trip alone, and the her. lot of experience into her first day, Miss Kibler-knethe hazards of even considering her late start first woman to do so. The journey took seventeen days. the river, and she had obtained the She drifted easily through best equipment and advice possible. Trachyte Rapids, below Hite, and then -Her face was protected with a heavy In her planning, she acted with Intel- Beach. where she had planned to broke .two shear pins on her propellor 'of unbeach sunburn her carefulness.' her boat for her seven-da- y on side For cream, but rocks and sandbars while moving coating hgettii, and extreme hands and Rainbow Bridge the burned to sketch had memoshe motor. swelled, under was This not the protected end trip example, practically world's largest Datural arch, a tough rized the river charts which had been of the firss-da- y mishaps. She hit a so she improvised gloves from a pair socks. five miles distant on foot. Most of most of on her room wall And, for and had to the boat bobby important sandbar, oft posted living drag of all, she came to have a reassuring these first days was spent on the A wind came up, so heavy that it blew nearly a year. This proposed solo confidence boat in and at the hard manual work of her boat her was not the the stunt river, She tried ability trip extemporaneous drifting upstream. of a to start the motor, but it conked out, ,to handle it it was a river expe- handling the boat while trying to "After the first day. I was 4ver and she had to make emergency redition, carefully weighed and planned. guess the course of the channel. There were, however, new experi- she drifted to shore to 'scared of the river," she recalled. Finally, pairs. Food for two "Wind was my greatest fear, once the ences and new thrills every day for make camp before dark, but found Miss Kibler, who is a many-side- d And right up until her departure, - herself opposite a wash (the source of scare of getting started had vanished. I soon found out that the wind blows rock flash floods in the river), and draggedMiss Kibler had endeavored to get hound,, and amateur painter, so hard that can move-thsomeone to accompany her,, but her her boat upstream to get above boil up-- day Before she could make camp, it stream, and make it very difficult to from the diary she kept on the river prospects had begged off for one reahandle. And because of my short supson or another. In her fotid purchasing. turned pitch black, and she couldn't up early and "August of breakfast stewed a after fruit and of locate her flashlight So the tired had shear at Salt Lake City. she had bough:. three ply pins. (she only I got off to an early graham crackers. provisions for two, hoping that if no river runner went to bed without sup- - left) I was using my motor very startt-wantec- t oneelse were found,before she Devon a cramped bed made drifting. &tong; hóping 'reached. the river, Tarnum Young boat, with the sound of rain rattling that I wouldn't get into trouble. and by evening or earlier and look for pet- y on the tent she had improvised from rified wood. I drifted some And used would be able to make the trip. - But for staying on the river the motor some to speed-u- p the twig a ground cloth and an oar. At that in the afternoon. in case I beaching upon reaching Hite. she discovered stretches. had the Colorado had trouble that Mr.'Young had a more urgent aplost landing.", point.- running much of its appeal, but there was no "I was dreading Bullfrog Rapids, pointmentwith his draft board. 400 pound boat which were the worst 1 expected to It's likely that she could have obturning back now. That first day was the worst. tained the serves of one of the proParadoxically, a beached rubber encounter. Hit the Hansen Creek "After that, everything else seemed fessional guides who regularly take boat is hard to push back into the Rapids just right, which gave me a, little confidence. As 1 was drifting stream or off a sandbar, even though easy," she recalled later. people down the river. But these men into a quiet place about 10 a.m., the have to charge about $25 a day for At the end of her second day. Miss it is inflated with air. This problem catfish were out feeding in scores and woman can mana their equipment and services, and a Kibler had become something of a came right up to the boat. k river expert. She had age a beached boat grossing some 400 sketching trio at this rate, "1 kept watching the charts in ana and with to feel river's for the the cup.' together transportation begun get enigma poundswas 'other expense, put it way beyond the of the trip, and the presence in the rent, which can't be seen as it writhes ticipation of Bullfrog. Finally spotted reach of a school teacher. duffel of an emergency block and the abandoned 'gold dredger just unpredictably when the water spreads These factors entered into the deout in a broad channel. She had tackle didn't entirely eliminate the above the rapids. This was in 'mid- cision of this determined woman. to learned how to control her boat in fear. stream last year. but had washed close embark upon her solo sketching trip rapids, and how to get out of the to shore., - Then came- the rapids. I Miss. Kibler., traversed down the Colorado. 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ItIVIE-ELINN- MUST ACOUILE A NUMBER A lot of things which most women know little about must be g is important, understood by a river runner. and one must study the river to know the location of oil Map-readin- - ooeeeeswoonoEmnnaonloomnmmineomsvoeo- - of "AULSCLILIPIE" SKILLS - the sandbars and dangerous rapids. Miss Kibler hod to repair her''motor several times, so some knowledge of mechanics and the ability to handle on oar were imperative. 1 DEMET NEWS Guam SALT LAU OTT. UTAH-000- 801 L MI 7 |