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an inch or two up the face of the cliff we went for over 200 feet & near the top found a spot
where the rock overhung the only spot we could get up. It was hard to back out so I managed
to get my hands up over & getting a hold swing out & pulled up over. A slip there would have sent me 400 feet as our path had taken us out
over the steep face of the cliff below. I then helped Jerry & we were soon at the top. 
By a line measured the section & then decided that we would rather walk ten miles up the canon rather than attempt the descent by the path we came up. Decided upon we started off over rocks & rough ground as our path lay at the foot of 
the outer range of cliffs 2000 feet high, two miles up we were