Dear Eddy

[regarding Lew Steiger’s article on Martin Litton]

   Now- I note a comment, “Met the Hatch boys up in Utah around ’52, when they were teenagers learning to be guides", when Litton found us in Dinosaur.
   I was 25 years old and had been guiding for 9 years - rowing most of my life - when I rowed Litton through Lodore- (his first trip).
   History is great and often tough to dispute - if you weren’t there. It’s like a pretty woman in a whore house. The temptation is to over-dress, embellish and over paint a good thing.
   Now mind you I’ve never done this…

Don Hatch

   We don’t need no stinking signs up at Marble Canyon where we clean up the highway. Ed Abbey condoned cutting them down. Who are we to put ’em up?

Mike Boyle