Show accompanied by well known author river runners active again stop for supplies rest this years summer traffic on the green river began here when the crafts of the well known hatch river expedition and eg gert pictures stopped at green river utah for several days in the latter part of june gers and crew had embarked at green river wyoming and were to their destination at lake meade where major pow ell landed many years ago they expect to arrive there by august 8 just two months after begin ning their trip the group was thrilled at shooting the rapids between th the e two sister towns of green river they admitted to being awed by the wild beauty and coloring of gray canyon and gunnison butte camp was made on the we west st bank just beside the new bridge at green river utah they stopped to rest to realen ish supplies and to recruit a new crew member the only woman in the party was w as mrs cid ricketts sumner the charming author of pinky which was made into a highly successful movie mrs sumner thrilled and deeply interested in the trip had ridden all the rapids between green kiver river wyo and green river utah excerpt the rapids at hell hells s half acre here much to her disappointment the experienced boatmen decreed that the courageous little author more than 60 years of age must walk around the rapids rather than hazard an upset charles eggert of barrytown tarrytown Barry town N Y is co leader and photograph er mr eggert was making a documentary film of this entire river area to be used for a lee lec ture tour he is making cine eine bascope pictures and had re cording co arding equipment to catch al all I 1 the natural sounds of a river trip the assistant camera man I 1 is anthony tuttle of north hampton mass don hatch son of the man who pioneered the lampa and G green reen river boat runs is co leader and head boatman during the win ter mr air hatch teaches school in salt lake city he said that the hatch expedition had the larg est flotilla in the west irately 23 boats the assistant boatmen were bruce lium and les jones both of salt lake city while here mr jones was having trouble with his leg which he had loosly broken while riding a mo tor cycle in salt lake city 1 frederick wood who manages a book store in bridgeport conn is navigator for the expedition dr leslie emsden of suffolk england was the other ger er due to his work dr ems den en planned to leave the eppedi tion at green river it was un der stood the entire group and all their I 1 equipment was carried in t two inflated rubber boats the small er boat was 16 feet in length and the larger one was 27 feet long the large boat had a 13 ton ca paci lacity t y they said all their gear was suspended by angle iron frames so that the bottom of the boat had no weight directly on it we were told that this was so that the bottom of the boat could give with the impact when rocks were hit A rigid bottom would be punctured more easily than one that was not rigid one or even two punctures would not cause any immediate emergency it was explained there are 12 separate air cham bers in the inflated part of the boats and even if two chambers were punctured in the course of the days day s run the day could be finished out before stopping to repair the damage they said that no punctures had occurred up to this point both boats carried an out board motor and they also had a reserve of 25 gallons of gas oline the crew said that the only catastrophe that they had before reaching green river utah was that a gallon jar of fruit juice had been broken members of the expedition re fumed their journey down the green river on wednesday june 29 at about 3 00 p in m before leaving this area they planned to stop at the famous crystal gey ser on the banks of the green for a picture taking session did you know that about a mile and one half north 0 of the san raf ael bridge there is an extensive bed of dinosaur bonese the first house to be erected on the present huntington townsite was a log house built in m february J of 1881 by joseph E johnson 5 |