Glen Canyon float

Now that the water is incredibly low, I am feeling very tempted to float the
river this summer. Of all the stretches of water in the world, I have had a
lifelong regret that I never got to see Glen Canyon before Lake Powell
filled it up.

Has anyone here gone down the new river in recent years? Tell me about
put-in, take out, how much flatwater is there, and are the beaches all mud
still, or is some of it drying out for camping out. Can you hike some side
canyons; is Music Temple exposed. The register at Register Rock?

I think I'd consider taking my Blue Hole 17A with a small outboard for the
long flats. I'd probably rig something like a backboard thing that could lay
above the thwarts to sleep on if the banks were too muddy, and give myself
several weeks to do it.

What info is out there? This could be the last chance in our lifetimes to
see the Glen.

--riverman

riverman wrote:
> Now that the water is incredibly low, I am feeling very tempted to float the
> river this summer. Of all the stretches of water in the world, I have had a
> lifelong regret that I never got to see Glen Canyon before Lake Powell
> filled it up.
>
> Has anyone here gone down the new river in recent years? Tell me about
> put-in, take out, how much flatwater is there, and are the beaches all mud
> still, or is some of it drying out for camping out. Can you hike some side
> canyons; is Music Temple exposed. The register at Register Rock?
>
> I think I'd consider taking my Blue Hole 17A with a small outboard for the
> long flats. I'd probably rig something like a backboard thing that could lay
> above the thwarts to sleep on if the banks were too muddy, and give myself
> several weeks to do it.
>
> What info is out there? This could be the last chance in our lifetimes to
> see the Glen.
>
> --riverman

That would be a very interesting trip indeed! I look forward to some
follow up posting on this.

I just drove out to the West Coast and back and crossed as many
mountain ranges as I could get through. It looks like the Wind River
Mts had a good snow pack. I would expect the Green River would
have a good flow. Did not cross the Rockies in Colorado though.

My guess is that most of the upstream reservoirs are also very low
so a good percentage of that water will go toward refilling Fontenelle
and Flaming Gorge.

Anything published by the BLM/Reclaimation on how they plan to
proceed?

Blakely
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Blakely LaCroix (#86)
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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