Edna Fridley was a good friend of the canyon country of southeast Utah for more than 30 years. Every year she returned to the slickrock from her home, back east, to wander and explore what was then one of the…
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Last Float Down Glen Canyon:Sept/Oct 1962, Part 4: Harry and Dottie Get MARRIED…October 8, 1962
Last Float Down Glen Canyon:Sept/Oct 1962, Part 3…Headed to Hole in the Rock
Last Float Down Glen Canyon: Sept/Oct 1962, Part 2…Good Hope Bar to Hole in the Rock
LAST FLOAT DOWN GLEN CANYON–Sept/Oct 1962 …Words and Photographs by Edna Fridley
DOWN the ESCALANTE RIVER w/Ken Sleight —By Edna Fridley (ZX#63)
FROM KEN SLEIGHT,
“Edna soon came to Escalante and met many of the town folk. Coming and going from trips, we spent a lot of time at cousin Mohr Christensen’s Moqui Motel. My clients met there and at the other rustic-looking motels in Escalante when coming on trips.
“Edna loved Escalante Canyon and became intimately familiar with its features. We frequented Coyote Gulch more than any other canyon. It contains Jacob Hamblin and Coyote natural bridges and Jug Handle Arch. At its mouth and across the river, Stevens Arch looms high on the skyline. Negotiating this country often came hard. Going down Coyote Gulch on one trip, a giant part of the wall broke away and crashed into the creek bottom below, forming a natural dam. My old intrepid friend Vaughn Short, who helped me a lot through those years, aided me in fashioning a detour around the slide and I got our horses and mules around the long pool of water. Edna followed that trail on numerous occasions, as it led to Indian wall writings.”