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Show I Lake Powel dedication June 19. 1 100 years after explorer's trek j Lake Powell has nearly 1000 mil.?s of shoreline and Is still growing. Each mile hol.ls; some mystery worth exploring. The ancient dwellings are part of that mystery, and many boaters become hikers to got a better look at thp area. Located near the middle of the lake, close to Bullfrog Das in Marina and Hall's Crossing Ferry Service, are side can. yons where ruins of tin? ani cient Indians can still be seen South of the two marinas is Lost Eden Canyon, one of the most scenic areas on Lake Powell. Dwellings line th walls of this canyon wrier the Indians once farmed the sandbars of the rivers and streams. Metates (corn grind? ers) have hwn found belowf the houses along with bowl shaped holes scraped out of the sandstone by the "anj eients" who sat for hoitr.4 grinding the corn. " Both Bullfrog Basin ant Hall's Crossing rent boats anil equipment for visitors whdi want to explore the mystery ot . Lake Powell and enjoy thi history of the rugged canyon country off the Colorado. j. One hundred years have passed since John VV.?sley Pow. ell and eight companions sailed sail-ed three wooden boats through the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers, into tlv. churning waters of Cataract Canyon and on to what is now the CJlen Canyon Kecrea-tion Kecrea-tion area and Lake Powell. On June 10, lSli-mile long Lake Powell will be formally dedidcat.?d by the Bureau of Reclamation in honor of thi great American explorer-scientist who first mapped and surveyed Glen Canyon. Also to be dedicated is a John Wesky Powell Historic Museum near Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona. When Major Powell first saw the area it was a frightening frighten-ing display of high, impregnable- canyon walls with mazes of side canyons. The main gorge was filled with the murky, mur-ky, brown water of the mighty Colorado. Now the main gorge is a deep blue lake, and the side canyons are intriguing recreational recrea-tional areas for thousands of boaters and campers who visit the Utah-Arizona lake. But, 800 years before Powell and even earlier explorers entered en-tered the region, the ancient Moki Indians built their civilization civil-ization vvithn the canyons of the Colorado. Stones houses and storage bins lined the walls along the upper cliffs and small steps etched into the sheer walls below were the only access. The Cliff Dwelling were invincible. in-vincible. Sheer red sandstone walls gave protection from marauding bands of hunters, mountain lions and coyotes that wandered the riverbanks. |