Nice videos Doug & Angie. Your Flaming Gorge trip videos were one of the main reasons that Dottie and I took the 13 day trip there last summer. Loved it!!
BOAT wrote:.....At that time I was interested in off- roading in my dune buggy and in fact on one of their trips I was off-roading up in a place called "The Hall" where the Mormons camped while my dad and sister were on the water down on Powell - but there was no way to get to them - in fact there were still holes in the canyon walls where the Mormons had to lower their wagons down using ropes because it was a cliff - my dune buggy could not make the trip either...
That is actually "The Hole In The Rock"
. They put planks in the holes and the wagons went down with just the cliff side wheels on the planks along with the animals and people. They were on their way to found the town of Bluff, UT on the San Juan river 20 mile south of Blanding where we live.
http://bluffutah.org/town-history/
.... Then when the river kept flooding (1980's) most of them moved north the 20 miles and founded Blanding which was then called Grayson (another story about how it changed to Blanding).
The picture above is of "The Hole In The Rock" from Ruth's and my trip. Remember that the river was well below the lake level so they had to get horses/cows, people and wagons from that cliff down to and across the river and up the other side with still many canyons to cross before reaching what would become Bluff, UT.
"November 1879, 250 men, women, and children, with 80 wagons and 1,000 head of cattle, found themselves up against terribly broken, seemingly impassable terrain. The settlers had been en route for more than two weeks when they reached the 1,200-foot-deep Colorado River gorge, sixty-five miles southeast of Escalante."
There is a guy in the yard here in Florida now, Steve, who probably sailed with your dad as he sailed a number of times with people from the southern California area. We were talking about some of those trips the other day. That was before I started sailing.
We hope to get back to Lake Powell later this year and finish 'sailing only' the last 50 miles of the lake to finish what Ruth and I started when we 'sailed only' from Page to Bull Frog/Halls Crossing (90+ miles).
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