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E.C. LaRue, a member of the 1923 U.S. Geological Survey team, took this upstream view at the lower end of Tanner Wash rapids in Marble Canyon, 39.4 kilometers below Lees Ferry. These rapids have been difficult to navigate in the past: Powell posted and lined here in 1869; two members of the Brown-Stanton party drowned here in 1889; Bert Loper's boat capsized here in 1939 and he was never seen again. A large pile of driftwood has accumulated on the silt deposit in front of the boats. Pre-Glen Canyon high-water surges probably overflowed the uppermost boulders.

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E.C. LaRue, a member of the 1923 U.S. Geological Survey team, took this upstream view at the lower end of Tanner Wash rapids in Marble Canyon, 39.4 kilometers below Lees Ferry. These rapids have been difficult to navigate in the past: Powell posted and lined here in 1869; two members of the Brown-Stanton party drowned here in 1889; Bert Loper's boat capsized here in 1939 and he was never seen again. A large pile of driftwood has accumulated on the silt deposit in front of the boats. Pre-Glen Canyon high-water surges probably overflowed the uppermost boulders.