Yampa and Green Rivers with Bus Hatch, 1954 June

Item — video: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The party convenes in Denver, Colorado in late June 1954 and prepares to launch raft on Yampa River, probably at Lily Park. Once the voyage is underway the film contains lots of footage of scenery and flowers and men in and out of boats and pontoons but relatively few shots of running through the rapids until the end of the film. This film features the following scenes along the Yampa and Green Rivers:

Vale of Tears: entrance to Yampa Canyon
Harding Hole
Signature Cave
Cleopatra's Throne
Round Top
Mantle Cave with the family from Mantle Ranch: father Charlie, son Tim, and daughter Quanta
Johnson Canyon petroglyphs
Echo Park: Steamboat Rock, Jenny Lind Rock
Whirlpool Canyon: Jones Hole, minor rapids, boat damage (blown chamber) and repairs, The Cove campground
Island Park
Split Mountain Canyon: Moonshine rapid, SOB, Schoolboy
Dinosaur Quarry in Vernal, Utah

Dates

1954 June

Conditions Governing Access

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