Cataract Canyon

And I mean, really crazy stuff goes on.

Yeah, especially in Cataract Canyon, the early-

Yeah

... parts of the trip.

Those early events in Cataract Canyon, yeah, like s- uh, the...

And the rivers are that way.

They don't exactly invite you, you know? You've gotta be, have your Ps and Qs really together, you know?

So I have since done the, um, the Green River below Green River, Utah-

North of the Rio San Juan another vast plateau region is found, stretching to the Grand River.

The mountains of this region are the La Plata Mountains, Bear River Mountains, and San Miguel Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Elate, the Sierra Abajo, and the Sierra La Salle on the west, the latter standing near the brink of Cataract Canyon, through which the Colorado flows immediately below the junction of the Grand and the Green.

Throughout the region, mountains, volcanic cones, volcanic necks, and coulees are found, while the mountains themselves rise to great altitudes and are forest-clad.

Some of the plateaus attain huge proportions, and between the plateaus labyrinthian mesas are found.

Captain Powell and I go out to climb the wall to the east, for we can see dwarf pines above and it is our purpose to collect the resin which oozes from them to use in pitching our boats.

We take a barometer with us and find that the walls are becoming higher, for now they register an altitude above the river of nearly 1,500 feet.

July 23 On starting we come at once to difficult rapids and falls that in many places are more abrupt than in any of the canyons through which we have passed, and we decide to name this Cataract Canyon.

From morning until noon the course of the river is to the west.

North of the Rio San Juan another vast plateau region is found, stretching to the Grand River.

The mountains of this region are the La Plata Mountains, Bear River Mountains, and San Miguel Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Elate, the Sierra Abajo, and the Sierra La Salle on the west, the latter standing near the brink of Cataract Canyon, through which the Colorado flows immediately below the junction of the Grand and the Green.

Throughout the region, mountains, volcanic cones, volcanic necks, and coulees are found, while the mountains themselves rise to great altitudes and are forest-clad.

Some of the plateaus attain huge proportions, and between the plateaus labyrinthian mesas are found.

We take a barometer with us and find that the walls are becoming higher, for now they register an altitude above the river of nearly 1,500 feet.

July 23.

On starting, we come at once to difficult rapids and falls that in many places are more abrupt than in any of the canyons through which we have passed, and we decide to name this Cataract Canyon.

From morning until noon the course of the river is to the west.

North of the Rio San Juan another vast plateau region is found, stretching to the Grand River.

The mountains of this region are the La Plata Mountains, Bear River Mountains, and San Miguel Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Elate, the Sierra Abajo, and the Sierra La Salle on the west, the latter standing near the brink of Cataract Canyon, through which the Colorado flows immediately below the junction of the Grand and the Green.

Throughout the region, mountains, volcanic cones, volcanic necks, and coulees are found, while the mountains themselves rise to great altitudes and are forest-clad.

Some of the plateaus attain huge proportions, and between the plateaus labyrinthian mesas are found.

Captain Powell and I go out to climb the wall to the east, for we can see dwarf pines above, and it is our purpose to collect the resin which oozes from them to use in pitching our boats.

We take a barometer with us and find that the walls are becoming higher, for now they register an altitude above the river of nearly 1,500 feet.

July 23 On starting, we come at once to difficult rapids and falls that in many places are more abrupt than in any of the canyons through which we have passed, and we decide to name this Cataract Canyon.

From morning until noon the course of the river is to the west.

But I think the first and most important and interesting thing is, Rin, what'd you do last week?

I just got off of a phenomenal water policy river trip through Cataract Canyon, which is the...

Cataract Canyon and Narrow Canyon are the last canyons that lead into...

Glen Canyon, which is now flooded with Lake Powell.

Although some of those resources, as I learned last week, are reemerging as Lake Powell levels drop.

North of the Rio San Juan another vast plateau region is found, stretching to the Grand River.

The mountains of this region are the La Plata Mountains, Bear River Mountains, and San Miguel Mountains on the east, and the Sierra Elate, the Sierra Abajo, and the Sierra La Salle on the west, the latter standing near the brink of Cataract Canyon, through which the Colorado flows immediately below the junction of the Grand and the Green.

Throughout the region, mountains, volcanic cones, volcanic necks, and coulees are found, while the mountains themselves rise to great altitudes and are forest-clad.

Some of the plateaus attain huge proportions, and between the plateaus labyrinthine mesas are found.

We take a barometer with us and find that the walls are becoming higher, for now they register an altitude above the river of nearly one thousand five hundred feet.

July twenty-three.

On starting, we come at once to difficult rapids and falls that in many places are more abrupt than in any of the canyons through which we have passed, and we decide to name this Cataract Canyon.

From morning until noon the course of the river is to the west.