Grand Canyon / Colorado River Scroll Map Jones, Leslie Allen Western Rivers

Mimeograph scroll map [18 cm x 1371.5 cm] / [7" x 540"] on paper. Better than very good. First two feet (of this 45 foot map) has seven quarter sized chips to the foot. Highly detailed river runner's guide to floating the Grand from Lee's Ferry to Temple Bar and the Overton Arm of Lake Mead, by river running legend, Les Jones. Map notes all of the major rapids and how to navigate them as well as historic runs through these rapids and some of the mishaps. Also contains mileage and tips for boaters. Leslie A. Jones was born in Montana in 1922. He developed his love for rivers early on living by the Missouri River. It was not unusual for him to be found at that time rowing a boat under the moonlight fishing for catfish. Jones remained in Montana for his professional training as a civil engineer. In 1953, he moved to Salt Lake City. In the same year, Jones rafted the Lodore Canyon of the Green River with his cousins. This raft trip was in conjunction with the Sierra Club's attempt to create awareness about a proposed dam that would have flooded the canyon. It was on the same trip that Jones began to combine his love of river running and civil engineering. A broken oar compelled Jones to develop a self-support single person craft. Over the years, he has made several contributions to canoe and kayak designs. "I d noticed when I d run with the Sierra Club the rapids all kind of ran together as a blur, and I couldn t remember the details well enough, and I didn t have any identification points. So I started my scroll maps I didn t like the wind on the U.S. Geological [Survey] maps, so I started building my scroll maps. "The outline of the maps was taken either from aerial photographs and drawn artfully, or traced directly from the contour maps of the U.S. Geological Survey, putting the river end-to-end, instead of cut up in segments like the USGS did, . . . so I could line the river out on a seven-inch scroll strip and then take it from one end to the other, without having to run off the scroll. . . . And then putting a profile of the river . . . wherever it fit best. . . . We had to put them on paper, for lack of mylar. Then we put them on mylar" - Les Jones "Ride the wilderness whitewaters in reverence before god - with a prayer his strength will be in you." Grand Canyon Bibliography: 10.14.