Cliff gives the 5:30 coffee call. Breakfast is bacon, hash browns, and melon. Everyone packs their gear and the boat is loaded. We push off at 7:45. I am wearing socks with my crocs today so my ankles will not get sunburned. Our first stop of the day will be the LCR (Little Colorado River).
We pass some interesting features on the way down River.
We tie up at the LCR, mile 61.5, around 9:50. If there has been any recent rain, it will be flowing a muddy, brown color, but today it is a beautiful blue color. I find a Geological Survey marker, one of many I have found in the Canyon. However, this is the first one I have seen that did not have date, location, and elevation data stamped onto it. Several people float downstream in the Little Colorado. Unlike the Colorado River, which is a constant forty-five degree temperature because its water comes under the Glen Canyon Dam from the bottom of Lake Powell, the Little Colorado is fairly warm.
Richard Erbe and I move about half-way up the LCR until we are directly across from Ben Beamer's rock cabin. Ben Beamer was a prospector in the late 1800s. It is hard to believe that he lived alone in that one-room cabin. He is one of the few Grand Canyon historical people for whom there is no known picture. After about an hour and a half we go back to the boat. There sure are lots of rafts tied up here. Obviously, this is a very popular place.
We leave the LCR at 11:15 and drive only a short distance to Crash Canyon, mile 63, for lunch. Our lunch is chicken salad. Cliff is able to catch a Flannel Mouth Sucker fish beside the boat.
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