{"id":8087,"date":"2013-02-06T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2013-02-06T13:02:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T21:02:43","slug":"febmar-2013-issue-the-last-leg-of-the-last-float-down-glen-canyon-october-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/06\/febmar-2013-issue-the-last-leg-of-the-last-float-down-glen-canyon-october-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"(Feb\/Mar 2013 issue)  THE LAST LEG of the LAST FLOAT DOWN GLEN CANYON: October 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>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 most remote and isolated parts of the United States.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>In the fall of 1962, Edna set off on her last trip down Glen Canyon. The dam, 150 miles downstream, was almost complete.Within months the Bureau of reclamation would close its diversion tunnel and stop the free flow of the Colorado River.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Edna had been invited to join a party of friends to celebrate Harry Aleson\u2019s wedding, which was to happen during the trip. She flew to Salt Lake City, then rented a car to Page, Arizona via Zion National Park. At Page, after checking in at the Page Boy Motel, she arranged a flight to the dirt airstrip at White Canyon.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>She took thousands of photographs of her pack and river trips with leg\u00adendary guides Ken Sleight and Harry Aleson. But she also kept journals, often scribbled in small spiral notebooks. Here are excerpts from that trip\u2014 Part 3 of Edna\u2019s last journey down Glen\u2026and, of course, these amazing, never\u00ad-before\u00ad-seen photos\u2026JS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>CLICK THE IMAGE TO SEE MORE OF EDNA&#8217;S PHOTOS FROM THE LAST LEG.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/02\/01\/last-float-down-glen-canyon-septoct-1962-part-5-the-last-leg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8186\" alt=\"6-30-2012_101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/6-30-2012_1011-663x1024.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/6-30-2012_1011-663x1024.jpg 663w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/6-30-2012_1011-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"k9ae94eANE\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/02\/01\/last-float-down-glen-canyon-septoct-1962-part-5-the-last-leg\/\">Last Float Down Glen Canyon, Sept\/Oct 1962: Part 5&#8230;The Last Leg<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Last Float Down Glen Canyon, Sept\/Oct 1962: Part 5&#8230;The Last Leg&#8221; &#8212; Canyon Country Zephyr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2013\/02\/01\/last-float-down-glen-canyon-septoct-1962-part-5-the-last-leg\/embed\/#?secret=8j7QTZD8j5#?secret=k9ae94eANE\" data-secret=\"k9ae94eANE\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 most remote and isolated parts of the United States. In the fall of 1962, Edna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}