It is I’l rhite -"rater up here- The canyon '"ails are steep in places 
and again the slope is such that one c n easily walk up it. It 
looks leach * asier than it really is- At evening re stopped at 
a littl< shelf of' sand in a bend of the stream and rent ashoie and 
got ready for the night- There was a fisherman here fishing for 
sturgeon. You take a hundred or so feet of 1/h" rope? splice m 
three or four short pieces 4t intervals at one end, tie a small 
anchor on each of these with * chunk of lamprey eel for bait* 
m hen throw it over in son- eddy and tie the shore end to a stake or 
tree and com;. back in a couple of days, e Set out three lines on 
t i -"ay up river t „e next morning and had a fish on one as re came 
do~n Sunday- Me -"as 11 ft. long and as big round as, well, bigger 
than a nail keg- Great fighter? fust like an animated sa log " r ith 
the sleeping sickness. 
At the camp we split up into small groups for cooking 
and sleeping mid had a very good supper and a com# ort ble night, 
^he grub part had been very " r el.l -"orked out- ’’’iev had boiled hum 
for lunches?canned sausages and tongues? a lot of very good beef 
steaks? Tread and rolls, sliced bacon, coffee, cocoa, canned milk 
and lots of fruit end larn and several crates of oranges, ^he boxes 
•"ere opened, and everyone cam arid ^elped limself. Bright and early 
the various heaps of blankets scattered over the sandbar began to 
move and sho- signs of life and finally_resolved themselves into 
the differnt members of the company and re straggled down to the 
nverbank ‘"ith sopp and towels and ■"shed up and then cooked break 
fast. Blankets and camp kits ""ere packed and stored aboard, the 
roll -"as called and -e started again. rp his -"as Friday and -e rent 
50 miles further through very rough -"iter? 1-nding finally at 
Johnson's Bor on the Idaho side '"here there res abi& bur of clean 
white sand and quite a wide strip of level land between the river 
