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The Yampa River- Warm Springs Rapid
Tuesday, May 20, 1980. Warm Springs Rapid on the Yampa River, about four miles above the Yampa’s confluence with the Green River in far western Colorado. We launched a few days before on a river swollen by spring run-off, camping at Teepee and Harding Hole, marveling at the amazing sunsets (Mt. St. Helens, which had […]
Harold Leich- From Grand Lake to Cataract Canyon 1933
By Roy Webb Photos Courtesy Special Collections Dept., J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah The people of Grand Junction, Colorado, were used to seeing all kinds of things floating in the Colorado River through town; trees, parts of fences, a dead cow or horse. So no one took much notice when a tanned […]
Les Voyageurs San Trace-The DeColmont-DeSeyne Kayak Party of 1938.
It was about two weeks into what was supposed to be a month-long trip that I realized there was no way I was going to be able to keep up with the film crew. They were all less than half my age, in their late 20s, and I was a couple of weeks away […]
Lost Canyons of the Green River
August, 1843. John Charles Fremont, the Pathfinder, is camped on the banks of the Green River in Browns Park, in what will one day be Colorado. It’s easy to imagine his guide, Kit Carson regaling the Pathfinder with tales of the old days, but Fremont’s attention was caught by what Carson said about what […]
