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"Across Arizona on a Raft" Tejas Edwards, Grand Canyon Raft Trip (June 1956)


03-01.jpg 03-01.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "63" Irene Edwards sitting down in the river and drinking it. Nobody worried about the silt in the water, they just didn't grind their teeth while drinking!

03-02.jpg 03-02.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "64" Irene looked like she needed to cool off, so someone obliged her.

03-03.jpg 03-03.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "65" This quickly degenerated into an overall free-for-all.

03-04.jpg 03-04.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "66" No one was spared, not even Georgie!

03-05.jpg 03-05.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "67" With everyone cooled off, the rafts sailed on down the smooth river.

03-06.jpg 03-06.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "68" This may have been Loper's wrecked boat, a reminder that this is a dangerous river.

03-07.jpg 03-07.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "69" A plaque in memory of Bert Loper.

03-08.jpg 03-08.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "70" The junction of a side stream into the Colorado.

03-09.jpg 03-09.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "71" Irene at right.

03-10.jpg 03-10.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "72" A little swim for all. Georgie is standing on a rock, Irene and Tejas are in the water below her.

03-11.jpg 03-11.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "73" Evidence of a tragedy: two commercial airliners had a mid-air collision over the Grand Canyon. This had happened shortly before Georgie began this trip. The officials had given Georgie body bags and other equipment in case we came across bodies or other wreckage. In this picture, we see a piece of one of the aircraft.

03-12.jpg 03-12.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "74" Irene examines another piece of an airplane.

03-13.jpg 03-13.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "75" Yet more wreckage.

03-14.jpg 03-14.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "76" Finding no human remains, Georgie cached the body bags as the rangers had instructed her to do.

03-15.jpg 03-15.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "77" The message on the cache to the ranger.

03-16.jpg 03-16.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "78" Other equipment placed in the cache.

03-17.jpg 03-17.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "79" If you look closely, high on the cliffs, you can see the main wreckage of one of the aircraft.

03-18.jpg 03-18.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "80" The previous rapid had damaged the large raft. It had to be inverted in order to make the repair. It took all hands.

03-19.jpg 03-19.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "81" Here is the damaged portion of the bottom.

03-20.jpg 03-20.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "82" The slanting rays of the sun light up the high cliffs.

03-21.jpg 03-21.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "83" Georgie is making repairs to another kind of bottom, not that of the boat!

03-22.jpg 03-22.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "84" What's left of an old settlement.

03-23.jpg 03-23.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "85" Irene standing. A hidden pool or spring.

03-24.jpg 03-24.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "86" Irene collecting minerals.

03-25.jpg 03-25.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "87" A curious formation.

03-26.jpg 03-26.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "88 A poisonous-looking spring. Notice that there is no life in or around it.

03-27.jpg 03-27.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "89" Curiously sculptured strata.

03-28.jpg 03-28.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "90" Colorful rocks.

03-29.jpg 03-29.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "91" Long view from a sand bar. A good place to camp.

03-30.jpg 03-30.jpg Text: (Ektachrome): "92" A campfire made from driftwood.

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