Water in the desert
| The Colorado River was decidedly “too thin to plow.” In Spanish, “colorado” means red. It was red, carrying dozens of tons of silt per minute from the red rock of the plateau to the great delta at the Gulf of California. You can usually safely drink the red river water untreated, but, especially if the river is rising, you might get sick. (You will occasionally see a bloated, dead cow floating past when you camp during heavy runoff times, a reminder that modern man is still there far upstream carrying out modern civilization’s businesses.) But why take that chance: the glens have many springs at the base of the cliffs, with cool, clear water. You carry plastic bottles of spring water in your boat. And you carry enough with you when you hike up away from the river. |
GLEN
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HOW TO LINK TO YOUR SITE HERE.
When we returned
to Berkeley, we discovered that our adventures had been in newspapers from
coast to coast. One Bay Area Newspaper (The Oakland Tribune) had
a sharp-eyed reporter who was suspicious of the names given, checked it
out with the Hiking Club at the university, and somehow deduced the correct
identities from the information he had.
Our lost and confused
hiker later took a course in map reading when he returned to school.
His lost companion went on to graduate and become a faculty wife at a large
state university.