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They named the camp San Benito, adding to it, appropriately enough the word Salsipuedes, meaning "get out if you can." They yawning mouth of Marble Canyon blocked their progress below and the formidable Echo Cliffs (called by them La Cuesta de las Animas) stood in their way above. When attempts to ford the Colorado or to cross it on crude rafts failed, it was decided to go on upstream to look for a suitable ford. The Spanish party finally located a trail, still in use, which ascends the Echo Cliffs from a point on the Paria River about two and one-half miles above its mouth. With extreme difficulty on November 2 they surmounted the cliffs, wound their way through the steep ledges on their eastern slopes, crossed the red patches of sand, possibly within sight at times of Beehive Rock, marking the location of Glen Canyon dam, and finally reached Wahweap Creek (Historical site 18). The explorers camped for the night in the open bottoms near the head of the deeply entrenched canyon of the Wahweap at a place they called San Diego, probably in Utah in Sec. 5 T44S R4E SLBM, where they were within the reservoir area of Glen Canyon dam. On November 3, 1776, Domínguez and Escalante traveled southeast and reached the bank of the Colorado a second time only to find themselves on the rim of Glen Canyon 500 ft., almost directly, above the water. They camped on the rim opposite the mouth of Navajo Creek (Historical site 117), naming the spot El Vado de los Consninas, or San Carlos. An attempt was made to find a crossing in the vicinity. Two members, of the group, Juan Domingo on foot and Lucrecio Muniz on horseback, found a route down into the canyon. This must have been by way of a steep narrow passage which begins at a point opposite mile 25 and descends in a downstream direction at an angle to the axis of the river, reaching a rocky bench near the water's edge at mile 24.8. The entire party literally stumbled down the passage, where there is a wild animal trail today, and camped on the bench on November 4. They were in a position overlooking the sandy bar later known as Wright Bar (Historical site 104), a gold placer location. Domingo and Muniz managed to cross the river here and go on up the twisting profound gorge of Navajo Creek a distance but they found no exit. After this on November 5 the Spaniards climbed back to the rim of Glen Canyon to try again farther upstream. They soon encountered the deep trench of Warm Creek Canyon (Historical site 112), a tributary of the Colorado, which blocked their progress. 2Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 13,776,896 byt