314 The Colorado River 
shoulders to their haunches. At last, however, we got to the 
mountains, and though it was now the 17th of June water 
froze one half inch thick in the kettles in our camp about 
fifteen hundred feet up the slopes. Thompson climbed one of 
Repairing Boat Near Mouth of Fremont River on the Colorado, 1872. 
Photograph by J. Fennemore, U. S. Colo. Riv. Exp. 
the mountains, and I started up another, but my companion 
gave out. We crossed through a pass, and on the 22d, after 
pursuing a winding and difficult road through canyons, suc¬ 
ceeded in getting the whole train down to the Colorado a 
short distance below the mouth of the Dirty Devil. The 
