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Lining down stream is just the opposite of the method used in going upstream. "The boat is kept pushed off shore with the pike pole, the current carrying it down, and the boatman holding fast to the tow line. For one man to line down stream is...
2004-07-12
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lower end of the rapids without difficulty, and by 3 o'clock P. M. was at Beavermouth, and went into camp on a grassy flat, at the mouth of Quartz Creek, and near the remains of a sawmill that had burned down—the flat being littered with charred...
2004-07-12
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Image Caption: LOOKING UP BEAVER RIVER --page break-- ward to Rogers Pass, and then descend toward Revelstoke, by means of a series of surface loops, and with many snowsheds. At a cost of $12,000,000, the summit section has since been replaced...
2004-07-12
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go down the River with me to Surprise Rapids after returning from a visit to his home at Golden.
In the meantime I had no way of keeping occupied and as I had lost a pair of spectacles on the Blackwater trip and thought they could possibly be...
2004-07-12
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I am not particularly impressed with the Peterborough, but prefer something of the type I had made. The faults I find with them, are, first, the bottom is too straight, longitudinally, and for that reason they do not quickly respond to oars or...
2004-07-12
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River, but had no success. The next morning, with an empty boat, I rowed the two miles up Bush River against a rather stiff current, and then wound my way up the crooked outlet of the lakes. Fishing all day, without even getting a nibble, I...
2004-07-12
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breakers of Surprise Rapids have about as evil a reputation as has Death Rapids. It is about as dangerous to navigate and is much longer, having a total length of three miles. The roughest section is the first mile and a half, and is generally...
2004-07-12
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These were the first grouse I had killed since shooting the one on Blackwater trail, and that evening I had a nice "mulligan" for supper.
For three days I walked hack each morning to Smith's camp, to see if Emond had returned, but he did not...
2004-07-12
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short distance, in rounding a point on the right, I came suddenly upon a slender shaft of rock about 70 feet high, directly in the middle of the River. I had been advised of this and told to keep the right hand channel, but the current drew so...
2004-07-12
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Image Caption: EMOND AND KNUDSON AT KINBASKET LAKE CABIN --page break-- pulled across to the right hand shore, reaching it just below the mouth of Middle River. I had no sooner gotten across than the wind ceased entirely, and it was not long...
2004-07-12
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CHAPTER XIII
FROM KINBASKET LAKE TO THE FERRY On August 5, about midday, I noticed two Peter-borough canoes, each with an occupant, coming down the lake from the south. As they came nearer I saw that the man in the larger canoe was Emond, and...
2004-07-12
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lower end of the lake—I agreed to the suggestion. Making up two twenty-five pound packs of bedding and food, accompanied by Emond's dog Fannie and her year old pup Jack, we started at noon and following a rather rough and brushy trail; after...
2004-07-12
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easy, merely gliding down a smooth flowing incline. I did this in the usual manner, stern first, but in three-quarters of a mile had to go ashore on the right—the River was contracted still more than above, and there was a vicious rapid below....
2004-07-12
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its length along the rocky right hand shore and determined that it was a case of lining for a full mile on the side I had followed. Returning to the boat I dropped her down in the current, holding the towline in my left hand, and with the...
2004-07-12
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of the surroundings and then I sank into the deep, untroubled sleep of the weary.
The next day I lined three raging rapids, keeping down the right hand shore as it presented the least difficulties.
The second rapid was different from the rest....
2004-07-12
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oars, and a canoe paddle. I wanted one of the oars to replace the mended one, which might fail at any time. The oars were on the lower side of the creek where it was impossible to make a landing, and the creek was too large to ford. So, I walked...
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could have reached the Ferry, nine miles below, by nightfall. As it was' I had made eleven miles on my third day in the rapids.
On examining the River in the morning it was evident that it had risen a foot over night. On the previous afternoon,...
2004-07-12
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Image Caption: LOOKING NORTH AT THE FERRY --page break-- sence Fannie had had a litter of pups. Emond had drowned all but one, which the dog watched with anxious eyes, looking upon everyone but her master as an enemy ready to steal her offspring....
2004-07-12
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guarded the entrance, he safely entered the River and on May 11, 1792, anchored in fresh water ten miles above its mouth. Gray named the river after his vessel, "Columbia," and that name has since been retained.
Gray sailed up the Columbia 35...
2004-07-06
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below Athalmer, and here built a permanent fort to which he gave the name of "Kootanae House," the remains of which can still be seen just east of the wagon road between Athalmer and Wilmer. Here he remained until the spring of 1808 when he...
2004-07-06
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stream and Kootenay River route, knowing that he could reach the Columbia at Kettle Falls. He had 197 miles to go to reach Kootanae House, and 232 miles to reach McGillivray's Portage, and with many bad rapids to ascend; but the low stage of water...
2004-07-06
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called Tongue Point. The flag she bore was the British and her crew was composed of eight Canadian boatmen, or voyagers ; a well dressed man, who appeared to be the commander, was the first to leap ashore."
It is claimed by some Canadians that...
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rivers that he explored. For this purpose he carried with him a sextant, chronometer, and magnetic compass. His method of making surveys was to establish an astronomical station and definitely determine its location by meridian altitudes of the...
2004-07-06
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CHAPTER VI
THE PARADOX OF THE COLUMBIA AND KOOTENAY RIVERS We are now pretty well primed, in a general way, with facts in relation to the Columbia River, and about all that remains to be known is the exact nature of the country it...
2004-07-06
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CHAPTER VII
FROM CANAL FLAT TO ATHALMER I am now ready to start on my journey on the waters of the Columbia to the sea. Brede was still with me, and on the morning of June 13, together, we carried my outfit and provisions from the old...
2004-07-06
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