Wonderland Expeditions presents "Escalante County", circa 1962

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Scope and Contents

Shot list:

Opening credits: Rainbow Bridge
0:30 Running rapids in 10-man boat; not sure of location. San Juan River or Glen Canyon?
1:06 sandstone buttes
1:30 small rapids, buttes
1:46 Bert Loper's Cabin, Glen Canyon
2:15 breakfast
2:34 Native American ruins. Defiance House?
2:55 Smith Fork petroglyph panel
3:15 sunset light on buttes and cliffs
3:29 start of hike to Hole-in-the-rock. Carved steps; view back down to river and across; group at top of hike; returning from hike
4:23 hike in Escalante Canyon; cliff walls
5:50 people swimming/wading in river at unknown side canyon mouth
6:35 Native American ruins
6:58 Pictographs
7:05 metates (grinding stones)
7:16 Native American ruins
7:37 female passengers, some climbing into Native American ruins (strictly forbidden today)(great 1950s sunglasses)
8:05 Pictographs
8:29 "NEMO 1934" Everett Ruess inscription, Davis Gulch
8:40 seeps with ferns, vegetation
9:25 Escalante River, trees, seeps, vegetation
10:05 Gregory Natural Bridge (now under Lake Powell)
10:16 man with packhorse going under Gregory Natural Bridge; man walking under bridge
10:57 Stevens Arch
11:45 Gregory Natural Bridge
12:15 small waterfalls on Escalante River
12:55 10-man military surplus boats in rapids, Colorado River
13:15 Olympia Bar, old mining machinery, Glen Canyon
13:55 oil seeps, oil well
14:47 sand dunes
15:13 blooming barrel cactus; passengers cutting up cactus to eat? (putting slices from inside of cactus in pot)
15:46 people jumping off boats into river, throwing each other in river, water fights (SOCTWA trip? Looks like different passengers, different boats, all boys)
16:52 people jumping into pool in side canyon
17:10 waterfall in side canyon
17:37 hike up Forbidding Canyon (route to Rainbow Bridge; 14 mile round trip); pools
18:04 Rainbow Bridge; Navajo Mountain in background
19:15 climb up buttress to side of Rainbow Bridge with rope
19:45 climb down onto top of Rainbow Bridge with rope (the procedure was to climb up the side of the canyon next to the bridge, then use a rope to help walk/climb down onto the top of the Bridge)
20:30 top of Rainbow Bridge (no longer allowed); Navajo Mountain in background
21:33 sitting in pool
21:50 hiking at base of cliffs; woman finds white chert arrowhead
22:22 Hidden Passage
22:40 cliffs, camera pans down to someone's watercolor painting of the same cliffs, other watercolors, including Rainbow Bridge
23:30 sleeping on boats; Navajo Mountain seen from river
23:58 paddling boat up side canyon (Mystery Canyon?)
24:27 boy catches catfish
25:00 boy in mud
25:18 everyone in river, swimming small riffle in life jackets
26:00 passengers on boat, reading, combing hair, smoking cigarettes, mugging for camera
27:00 wet toilet paper roll
27:30 hoodoos, Henry Mountains in background
28:22 man in pool
29:25 Peekaboo Arch
29:50 small plane landing at Marble Canyon airstrip; pilot loading passengers duffle; two people boarding; plane taking off
31:15 END

Dates

circa 1962

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

Conditions Governing Access

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