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<br />C\l <br />0") <br />CD <br />.-1 <br /> <br />14 <br /> <br />GUI\'NISON RIVER DIVgRSION PHOJgC'1' <br /> <br /> <br />sleeping on it, <br />using their <br />mat t res s to <br />cushion their <br />repose, <br />At one point <br />they encoun- <br />tered a rock- <br />slide tunnel in- <br />to which the <br />r i v e r dis3.p- <br />peared. Sol - <br />emnly the y <br />shook hands, <br />the n jumped <br />into the mael- <br />strom, Fellows <br />WlIEIlE RfVER DISAPPEARED 1"-''1'0 ROCKS first, followed <br />ten minutes <br />later by Torrence and the raft. When Torrence came into view <br />below the slide, Fellows pulled him out by the collar onto a <br />rock. The men hysterically locked arms, laughing, and Fellows <br />cried "Who says the Black Canon is impassable!"'" <br />On another occasion, below the Narrows, the two ran out <br />of food, like members of the 1900 expedition. They went for <br />sixteen hours <br />without a <br />mouthful, <br />then divided <br />the last spoon- <br />ful of baked <br />beans and <br />prayed for the <br />best. L u c k <br />was with <br />them. The y <br />came upon a <br />pair of big- <br />h 0 r n sheep, <br />the first living <br />things the y <br />had encoun- <br />tered in the <br />canyon. One <br />CATCHING A MOUN'J'AIN SHE]<JP bighorn dart- <br />ed between two rocks and was cornered by Torrence who <br />sprang to the opening, The sheep rushed out, right into Tor- <br /> <br /> <br />10 HoH:;er an(l ""il1ey, op. cit.: r; 1 li. <br />