As we got closer to the river, Diane and I were surprised at how green the river was. In all the pictures we had seen, it was always brown and that is what we expected. The green water confused me so much that for a second I thought it must be some tributary of the Colorado and not the river itself. We learned that the river is green at lower flows and brown at higher ones, and that because this was “weekend” water, the flow was reduced. There is less demand for power on the weekends so less water is released from Glen Canyon Dam. At the put-in, we met the rest of our group. The new guests were Becky Blankenburg and Steve Lieske, Karl Claus, Susan Goodman, Larry Neufeld, Bill Goodman, Linda and Jay Jones,
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