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Searching the digital archives of the Cline, U of U, Ft. Lewis, etc. I've never seen a photo of any of the old river runner at Peek-a-Boo. I've often wondered if it is because of the difficulty in accessing the bench from the San Juan River. If anybody sees a pre-Lake Powell photo of the arch, please post.
 
Raven Haven said:
Searching the digital archives of the Cline, U of U, Ft. Lewis, etc. I've never seen a photo of any of the old river runner at Peek-a-Boo. I've often wondered if it is because of the difficulty in accessing the bench from the San Juan River. If anybody sees a pre-Lake Powell photo of the arch, please post.
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Long ago I was on 2 houseboat trips from the San Juan Marina. After launching we saw a river runner coming in from upper San Juan into the bay where marina was located.
 
powellglass said:
Long ago I was on 2 houseboat trips from the San Juan Marina. After launching we saw a river runner coming in from upper San Juan into the bay where marina was located.
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Do you have any pictures of the San Juan Marina? Two years ago I visited the old site. You can search WW and see the photos. There is a decent book about it, also. It's called Floating Hogans by Wanda Ellits.
 
I found this:
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(G.M. Stevenson photo)
 
Raven Haven said:
Do you have any pictures of the San Juan Marina? Two years ago I visited the old site. You can search WW and see the photos. There is a decent book about it, also. It's called Floating Hogans by Wanda Ellits.
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Yes I do. I also have a short video clip of our group launching on the ramp. How do I upload photos. I will take a screenshot of photos and upload.
 
This is after launching the boat at the SJ Marina, and is I believe to the right of the ramp. Also packing up to leave after a great trip! I can look for more pictures. I do have a video from our launching, but heaven help me to locate that! The Floating hogans book was a great read. In July this year we kayaked from our houseboat spot a few coves on the left from Great Bend into Great bend and were only able to do the right turn in and then left and as I recall and the end was in sight. I do regret not being able to have the time this trip to kayak completely to what looked like the silt end. We were able to get further into Great Bend last year, a favorite thing of mine.
 

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Raven Haven said:
Searching the digital archives of the Cline, U of U, Ft. Lewis, etc. I've never seen a photo of any of the old river runner at Peek-a-Boo. I've often wondered if it is because of the difficulty in accessing the bench from the San Juan River. If anybody sees a pre-Lake Powell photo of the arch, please post.
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I've never seen any pre-lake photo of Peek-a-Boo arches either... but I have found an old oblique aerial from 1958 that shows where the landing site would have had to be to make the hike, and from this, I'd guess it would have taken a real effort to figure out how to get up the bench there...one that few if any would make. Compare the 1958 aerial and the 2013 Google Earth image I created of how to access that hike...

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I imagine there are hundreds if not thousands of sites and structures that have been seen and accessed because of the lake that were not known about before the lake granted access to them. Another positive result of the lake. So far as I understand it, the lake has done what it was meant to do plus so many other things that they did not predict. Got to love Lake Powell.
 
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I have launched my fishing boat a number of times from the site of the old SJ ramp. When the marina was abandoned the Park Service made them tear out the concrete or asphalt ramp but it was very usable on the gravel base. We always camped close to the launch area and never had problems with thievery but there was much vehicle broken glass and report of stolen items including tires. Nice to have the vehicle in camp for fuel saving, storage, etc. The fishing was great, not much pressure. We fished as far down as Spenser's Camp and Zahn. Now it's 20 miles to water. Chuck
 
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I've never seen any pre-lake photo of Peek-a-Boo arches either... but I have found an old oblique aerial from 1958 that shows where the landing site would have had to be to make the hike, and from this, I'd guess it would have taken a real effort to figure out how to get up the bench there...one that few if any would make. Compare the 1958 aerial and the 2013 Google Earth image I created of how to access that hike...

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I have done this hike twice. starting at a much higher water level. It is am amazing hike.
 
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