We had won the fight without disaster and we slept that night in peace.
Lodore is wholly within the State of Colorado.

It is 20-3/4 miles long with a descent of 420 feet,[9] mostly concentrated between Disaster Falls and Hell's Half-Mile, a distance of about 12 miles.

The total descent from the Union Pacific crossing was 975 feet in a distance, as the river runs, of about 153 miles.
[Illustration: Echo Park.
Mouth of Yampa River in Foreground, Green River on Right.
Photograph by E.O.Beaman, 1871.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 7: Professor Thompson's diary says he landed first after a hard pull, "and then caught the other boats below, they not succeeding in getting in."] [Footnote 8: In his report the Major ascribes the naming of this cliff to an evening on the first voyage.

The incident could hardly have occurred twice even had the camps been in the same place.] [Footnote 9: In my _Romance of the Colorado River_ these figures were changed to 275 because of barometrical data supplied me which was supposed to be accurate.

I have concluded that it was not.].