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Image captions: WHERE WE TIED UP AT KINBASKET LAKE (above)
THE BRIDGE WHICH THE COLUMBIA CARRIED A HUNDRED MILES AND PLACED ACROSS ANOTHER STREAM (center) LINING DOWN TO THE HEAD OF DEATH RAPIDS (below) --page break-- sided rock island,...
2004-08-10
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Image captions: LANDING AT SUNSET ABOVE CANOE RIVER (above)
ANDY AND BLACKMORE SWINGING THE BOAT INTO THE HEAD OF ROCK SLIDE RAPIDS (centre) THE BIG ROLLERS, FROM 15 TO 20 FEET FROM HOLLOW TO CREST, AT HEAD OF DEATH RAPIDS (below)...
2004-08-10
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Image captions: LINING DOWN ROCK SLIDE RAPIDS (above)
WHEN THE COLUMBIA TOOK HALF OF MY RIDING BREECHES (below) --page break-- up in a favourable position, Blackmore and I lined back up-stream a hundred yards so as to have a good jump on...
2004-08-10
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CHAPTER IX
REVELSTOKE TO THE SPOKANE The voyage round the Big Bend, in spite of the atrocious weather, had gone so well that I had just about made up my mind to continue on down river by the time we reached Revelstoke. A letter which awaited...
2004-08-11
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source of delight, even after a fortnight of the superlative scenery of the Big Bend.
There is a stock story they tell of the Arrow Lakes, and which appears intended to convey to the simple tourist a graphic idea of the precipitousness of their...
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was the square stern, and that was of less moment running down river than if we had been working up. It did seem just a bit like asking for trouble, tackling the Columbia in a boat built entirely for lake use; but Captain Armstrong's approval of...
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The boat trimmed well when we came to stow the load the next morning, but when the three of us took our places she was rather lower in the water than we had expected she was going to be. She seemed very small after Blackmore's big thirty-footer,...
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grin, resting on his paddle as we slid easily out of the final run of swirls ; "you ought to take her right through without a lot of trouble." "Imshallah!" I interjected piously, anxious not to offend the River God with a display of overmuch...
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Bar the river was a good deal spread out, running in channels between low gravel islands. Any one of these was runnable for a small boat, and we did not need to keep to the main channel that had once been maintained for steamers. Sixteen miles...
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and the perfection of the intricate process through which it is now put at Trail has made a mine, which would otherwise have remained practically valueless, worth untold millions. The two thousand and more employes of the smelter are the main...
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ities. At a final conference we decided to heed the warning about not attempting to carry any drinkables openly into the United States. Stowing what little there was left where not the most lynx-eyed or ferret-nosed Customs Officer could ever get...
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for weather of that kind over in "God's Country." As there was nothing but sodden clouds to the southward, I didn't feel like giving him any definite assurance on the point at the moment. However, when we crossed the Line an hour later the rain...
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trod the light inner bottom of the skiff. Roos filmed the operation as a part of the picture, I acting as much as I could like I thought a farmer would act at his first Customs inspection. Roos, complaining that I didn't "do it natural," wanted to...
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The Little Dalles are formed by a great reef of limestone which, at one time, probably made a dam all the way across the river. The narrow channel which the Columbia has worn through the stone is less than two hundred feet in width for a...
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track, which was comparatively close at hand. At the end of a couple of miles I reached a small station called Marble, the shipping point for a large apple orchard project financed by the J. G. White Company of New York. Mr. Reed, the resident...
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there and catered to the occasional wayfarer bustled about and got us a corking good meal—fried chicken and biscuits as light as the whipped cream we had on the candied peaches—and our beds were clean and comfortable.
As we were now but a few...
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tion. The town is some little distance below the Falls, and quite out of sight of the river, which flows here between very high banks. We stopped at the hotel for lunch before completing the portage.
After talking the situation over with Captain...
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northward for five or six hundred feet before uniting with the main river. It was the savage swirling of water in that rock-walled elbow where the "somersault" takes place that prompted the imaginative French-Canadian voyageurs to apply the...
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Lieutenant Symons does not state whether any confusion ever arose as a consequence of the fact that three of his five Indians bore the inevitable French-Canadian name of "Pierre." Of the method of work followed by himself and his topographical...
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were of the tribe from which the bar must have been named, civilization had brought them its blessing in the form of hair-restorer. They were as hirsute a lot of ruffians as one could expect to find out of Bolshevia—and as dirty.
Turtle Rapid...
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us to Gerome, where another ferry crossed to the west or Colville Reservation bank. A couple of swift, shallow rapids above and below Roger's Bar was the only rough water encountered. We were looking for a point from which Spokane could be reached...
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fore. He was a real old river rat; just the man I wanted—if I could find him. He was as hard as a flea to put your hand on when you did want him, though. Well, it took us four hours to run our man down, but luck was with us in the end. Every...
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said he would start a car off at once to take us there.
We spent the afternoon helping Roos patch up the continuity of his "farmer" picture. Although Captain Armstrong had appeared in all the scenes shot since we started with the skiff, he had...
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kane County Board, who had courteously volunteered to come for us when it appeared there would be some delay in getting a hired car off for the hundred and sixty-mile round trip. He was accompanied by his son, a high-school youngster. As they had...
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of this daring project I was to see much of at firsthand during that part of my voyage on which I was about to embark.
Captain Armstrong left by train for Nelson the evening of the 27th, and the following morning Major Laird drove Roos and me...
2004-08-11
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