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chasedavidson

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Hi Everyone!

Found Waynes Words as i have been scouring the internet to find ANYTHING on the old Piute Farms Marina.

A little bit about me: I'm just an Eighteen year old that knows Lake Powell like the back of my hand! Can name just about every canyon you can think of. I have been coming down 3 or 4 times a year as long as i can remember!
I crave any new information i can get on all parts of the Lake, especially the San Juan Arm!

Anyways, I would love to get to know everyone on this site! And hopefully i get to learn much much more about my favorite place! And if anyone has some cool info on Piute Farms or just the San Juan Arm in general i would love to hear it!
 
Welcome to the Wordling nation, Chase! The San Juan is indeed a great place. So much to see and explore there, even if there are gobs of zombies and crocs. ;) A great book I can recommend is called "Floating Hogans," by Wanda Morlan-Eilts. She and her husband managed the old marina there in the 80's. It's an interesting story.

Amazon.com: Floating Hogans in Monument Valley: Remembering the First Marina in Navajoland eBook : Wanda Morlan Eilts: Kindle Store

Floating Hogans in Monument Valley: Remembering the First Marina in Navajoland - Kindle edition by Wanda Morlan Eilts. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Floating Hogans in Monument...
www.amazon.com

I can also recommend another book about Colorado River history and Lake Powell history, written by myself and the late- and great- Pete Klocki, who was a fabulous story teller on this forum. It's called "A Wild Redhead Tamed" and you can either find it on Amazon or IUniverse. It's only $13.95 for paperback, or $6.99 for the Ebook version.
www.iuniverse.com

A Wild Red River Tamed

A Wild Red River Tamed--A brief history of the steps to contain and control the mighty Colorado River. Prior to man’s control of the Colorado River, it ran red, wild, and full of silt. Today we have the two largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. on the Colorado River, an incomparable rafting experi
www.iuniverse.com www.iuniverse.com

You can also volunteer (since you're 18!) on the Trash Tracker. They do TWO trips to the San Juan each summer for 7 days. This is the best volunteer vacation anywhere on the planet. I can personally highly recommend the Trash Tracker, as I've been going on those trips each year since 2002.
www.nps.gov

Trash Tracker - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov www.nps.gov

Powell to the People!
Tiff
 
Here is an exciting adventure if you looking for something that is unforgettable.

Hike to Peek a Boo Arch

PeekaBoo or Rim Arch is one of the most spectacular arches on the shores of Lake Powell. It is found overlooking Piute Canyon Bay in the San Juan Arm of Lake Powell. Piute Canyon is visible from the arch but to see it from the water, go back down lake around the first corner downstream from...
wayneswords.net wayneswords.net
 
Tiff Mapel said:
Welcome to the Wordling nation, Chase! The San Juan is indeed a great place. So much to see and explore there, even if there are gobs of zombies and crocs. ;) A great book I can recommend is called "Floating Hogans," by Wanda Morlan-Eilts. She and her husband managed the old marina there in the 80's. It's an interesting story.

Amazon.com: Floating Hogans in Monument Valley: Remembering the First Marina in Navajoland eBook : Wanda Morlan Eilts: Kindle Store

Floating Hogans in Monument Valley: Remembering the First Marina in Navajoland - Kindle edition by Wanda Morlan Eilts. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Floating Hogans in Monument...
www.amazon.com

I can also recommend another book about Colorado River history and Lake Powell history, written by myself and the late- and great- Pete Klocki, who was a fabulous story teller on this forum. It's called "A Wild Redhead Tamed" and you can either find it on Amazon or IUniverse. It's only $13.95 for paperback, or $6.99 for the Ebook version.
www.iuniverse.com

A Wild Red River Tamed

A Wild Red River Tamed--A brief history of the steps to contain and control the mighty Colorado River. Prior to man’s control of the Colorado River, it ran red, wild, and full of silt. Today we have the two largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. on the Colorado River, an incomparable rafting experi
www.iuniverse.com www.iuniverse.com

You can also volunteer (since you're 18!) on the Trash Tracker. They do TWO trips to the San Juan each summer for 7 days. This is the best volunteer vacation anywhere on the planet. I can personally highly recommend the Trash Tracker, as I've been going on those trips each year since 2002.
www.nps.gov

Trash Tracker - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov www.nps.gov

Powell to the People!
Tiff
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yes!! already bought the Floating Hogans book and i cannot wait. I will look into those other books as well, thank you!
 
wayne gustaveson said:
Here is an exciting adventure if you looking for something that is unforgettable.

Hike to Peek a Boo Arch

PeekaBoo or Rim Arch is one of the most spectacular arches on the shores of Lake Powell. It is found overlooking Piute Canyon Bay in the San Juan Arm of Lake Powell. Piute Canyon is visible from the arch but to see it from the water, go back down lake around the first corner downstream from...
wayneswords.net wayneswords.net
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I've seen the arch from the water a few times and always wondered, is there a way to get up there? Thank you so much!
 
Hi Chase. The San Juan Arm is indeed spectacular and relatively untamed. It is an out-and-back from the main channel and there are no services up there since a landslide many years ago washed out the one marina that was up the lake at full pool. That means it is off of the main highway and consequently more like the Lake Powell experience we all seek. It also means, depending upon the time of year you are up there, you should plan accordingly. Tell people where you are going, when you will be back, etc. Like backpacking. I was there in May a couple of years ago. We went 30+ miles from the river channel and only saw one other boat. Navajo Mountain had snow down a couple of thousand feet. We were so enthralled that we hammered around each and every glorious bend in the river on calm water without thinking, until we hit the Great Bend, which had many very large trees floating and which stopped any further progress. The good news then was that Verizon cell coverage was fantastic within sight of Navajo Mountain. The better news was we slowed down before we hit the logjam. Help would have come. But it would have taken a while.
 
Chase you didn't tell us how your trip was. Did you slay the Croc's and Zoombies? BTW - my dad was totally entertained to find out we had pictures of the San Juan Marina. We were telling him about your interest and he say's "I wish we had pictures of that marina"-- thanks to your inquiry I had them readily available
 
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