Posted 3-7-12
Floating the calm water of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon, Boy Scout trip.
Photo circa 1955 |
Posted 2-1-12
Hidden Passage in Glen Canyon, along the Colorado River, is now covered by the waters of Lake Powell.
Photo circa 1959. |
Posted 9-12-11
Vintage photo of boy scouts floating the Colorado River in Glen Canyon, circa 1955. |
Posted 8-24-11
Photo by Roger Murphy, circa 1974.
Military surplus 10-man assault raft on a beach in Grand Canyon.
Yup, we used to cook on driftwood fires too! |
Posted 7-21-11
Slide dated 1972.
Mac demonstrating just how easy it is to pump up a ten-man raft. Anytime you want to help, boys...
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Posted 6-17-11
A very young Bob Quist in Grand Canyon. Love those kapok live jackets!
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Posted 6-10-11
Two images this week, we missed last week!
Scouts paddling a military surplus 10-man assault raft, location not noted, slide is undated. |
Posted 6-10-11
Two images this week, we missed last week!
Looks like they left someone behind! |
Posted 5-25-11
Scouts riding in 7 military surplus 10-man assault rafts get a tow, slide is undated.
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Posted 5-19-11
Boy Scouts on a military surplus 10-man assault raft, slide is undated.
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Posted 5-12-11
Early Moki Mac trip group photo. Slide is dated March 1959.
Individuals we can identify, Glen Rottman, front in Scout Uniform, his wife Arla in the fab sunglasses and scarf, Art Woodruff, Secretary of Western River Guides Assoc. far right with bandaid on the bridge of his nose,
and our own Clair, front row right side dark blue shirt and levis.
For everyone who knows Clair with the whiskers, yeah, that's really his face.
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Posted 5-5-11
Mac pontificating about the petroglyph panel in Smith's Fork canyon,
along the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. Slide is dated July 1962.
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Posted 4-15-11
Slide dated June
1971 - Mac caught sleeping on the floor of an upturned raft while camped at
Rock Creek on the Green River in Desolation Canyon. |
Posted 4-9-11
We think there's a boat under there....somewhere... |
Posted 4-1-11
Floating the flat water of the Green River in Stillwater Canyon.
Buttes of the Cross can be seen downstream.
Judging by the gear and the fashion, date is probably mid-1950s. Or last week...
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Posted 3-24-11
A view into Glen Canyon on the Colorado River, long before the waters of Lake Powell covered it all up.
Undated slide, most likely early to mid-1950s.
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Posted 3-18-11
Boy Scout rafting expedition in Glen Canyon on the Colorado River.
Unfortunately the slide is undated, most likely taken in the early to mid-1950s.
Look at all that military surplus gear. They were
OUTFITTED! |
Posted 3-10-11
Image of the Hite Ferry during operation by Arth Chaffin. This slide is not dated, but we believe this photo was taken before 1960. |
Posted 3-3-11
Scout leaders looking down into Hole In The Rock trail,
presumably at scouts hiking up the long trail from the river to the rim.
Navajo Mountain is in the background.
The same view today would show Lake Powell backing up into the river channel at lower left.
Photo taken circa 1950. |
 Posted 2-24-11
Whoa, Boys! Highside! Boy Scout Expedition ca. 1965
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Posted 2-18-11
A seat with a view after hiking out Hole In The Rock from the river, ca. 1950 |
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Posted 2-10-11
Mac Ellingson signing the river register at the Green River State Park. June 1971 |
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Posted 2-3-11
Clair in a sportyak with an Irish Setter named Dreadful.
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Posted 1-26-11
Boy Scouts paddling a military-surplus raft with Mac as rudder-man mid-1960s(?). Love that custom paint job! The original slide has no location or year. Can you identify that rapid?
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