That descent took us about two or three hours, and the whole way down we were literally one step away from death. So if anything had happened, if the mules had got skittish, we would have gone over the side. The wagon was a little over five feet across and this was all on a trail that was seven feet wide. It was so steep that the mules were so far below us, and we had to chain our wheels so that the wagons would skid along.
So we made a 2,000 foot descent in about a mile and a half. We took it up to 8,300 feet and then in less than two miles we had to descend down a mountainside to 6,000 feet. The rivers were so full and the mules would panic when we got up on top of the bridges, because there’s nothing in their DNA that prepares them for being 150 feet above the water.īut the single hardest day and most precarious time was when we took the end of the Sublette-Greenwood Cutoff which is a section of the trail in Western Wyoming.
A few times we had to take bridges across high water.
0 kommentar(er)
