Memories 2

	Extraordinary experience in winter, too. Ice floes like giant lily pads; we occasionally push our kayaks on one and ride it. When another pad hits a sand bar, it seems to reverse direction and head upstream. Jim Richardson and Margaret Yong on left. Keturah on right. Jim and Margaret later landed their airplane on a glacier in Alaska and made one of the early climbs of Mt Foraker, 2nd highest in the Denali group. When Margaret saw a notice at McKinley HQ asking for members to join a party to climb McKinley but that women would not be allowed to ascend to the summit, she organized an all-woman ascent. On a warm sunny day, they summited topless.
	A very warm alcove, when heated by campfire. Once it was the dwelling of Anasazi. On Christmas morning, we found a light snow covering the ground outside ... and covering our kayaks down there on the sand bar.
	The ice hasn't started to form yet. It did. Some of our party were a day or two behind us. They had to drag their boats over wall-to-wall ice in places.
Seen from the air, the immenseness of the canyons becomes a little more apparent. For scale, realize that one of our boats, were it in this picture, would probably be too small to be made out from this elevation. This is Mystery Canyon. Click on the picture to see it from river level.
A sea of rocks. A maze of sinuous saw cuts. More vertical than horizontal. Mile upon mile upon mile... This is the true meaning of "unique." Glen Canyon extended 170 miles, from Cataract Canyon to Lees Ferry, where the Grand Canyon begins with Marble Gorge.
	The last several miles were always sad miles. We would soon be leaving Glen Canyon, perhaps never to return. We sought the slow water. We floated in contemplative silence. Sam Greene on the far left. Then Keturah. Sam is currently teaching physics at Sonoma State Univeristy in Sonoma California. Keturah is sitting here wondering, "What blind foolishness leads man to make well-meant decisions that lead to such tragic outcomes." (And perhaps more women should make the important decisions?)
	Glen Canyon, a few years later. End of scrapbook. To discover much more of Glen Canyon, click here
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