Lake Mead Recreational Area 1949 Aug 7-8 up Lake with Baggle, Belberop, Com. Strauss, McPhail (in charge of power for BP), Nielsen & Warren of Project Clearing, Poyser & Jordan. Spent night at Sandy Point, where incidentally most of northeast beach are gone by high water as driftwood & trash floats in cleaves. South side of Sandy Point exposed to wind still wonderful beach at high water. Aug 8 up Canyon to rapids - above Bridge Canyon Dam site, perhaps 44 miles above Pearce Ferry. Tremendously impressive canyon walls topped by thick strata resembling Redwall limestone about the same all the way as that near mouth of Canyon. About Quarter- master's ranch gorge of granite & gneiss begins to join up & finally shapes into gorge about 600 ft. deep at BCD site. At this muddy stage of upper end of Lake with 12 to 15 ft. thermal second gate of water about el. 1197, it is impossible to differentiate between end of lake reservoir & beginning of river. Silt apparently very close to surface all way to lower end of Canyon - A bit