The Mud Canal

Mud Rapid just above the Colorado Bridge near Hite, March 2003, John Dohrenwend

Mud Rapid just above the Colorado Bridge near Hite, March 2003, John Dohrenwend

Starting in 2002, the river through Cataract Canyon began flowing across its own sediment delta. It wasn’t as much a river as it was a canal cutting through giant walls of sediment.