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intent upon completing the rescue. We realized that no matter what happened we would always need a cook.
When Ave reached the hank opposite the rock at the head of the falls, Dee was waiting for us. There was nothing else Ik1 could do but wait. After several attempts to throw him a rock to which had been tied the line, we discovered that our rope was just the same length as the distance the cook was from shore. We spent over two hours attempting to reach him. Dee nearly fell off the rock a dozen times as he stretched to get the flying rope. Finally we formed a human chain with one man standing up to his neck in the water, each of the others having hold of his companion's hand, with the fourth man still on the bank so he might get good footing to throw the rock and rope. This lengthened the line nearly ten feet and on the second throw Dee caught it. Quickly he tied it around his Avaist and dropped off into the raging current. The line being so light we were afraid to attempt to pull him in and he was forced to SAvim with the current until he Avas swept into the bank below us.
As Dee came up out of the river, Joe, figuring it Avas time for a laugh, in a casual manner asked what time it Avas. As if it Avere a perfectly natural question, the cook took off his Stetson which had been jammed down on the top of his head, reached into a bandana handkerchief, glanced at his perfectly dry watch and "alloAved it Avas about noon." The following laugh Avas on Joe, but it relieved the tension. My wrist Avatch had stopped at five to eight. We had been mighty busy lads trying to save our skins in the passing four hours.
Thus ended the 1200-mile canoe trip to the sea. We hadn't even taken a still picture, all our film Avas someAvhere in the bottom of the river. One canoe and part of the camera equipment had disappeared and I Avas out fourteen hundred dollars.
With apologies in my heart to Adventure Magazine we arrived in Portland two days later via railroad. Two Aveeks later Ave finished a canoe picture called "The Drifters," this time using the Clackamas River in Oregon. But the picture Ave made didn't contain half the thrills of the one Ave didn't get.
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