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The pioneers used this exposive to widen the crack?
What is black powder?
This town was named after the spectacular sandstone bluffs around the San Juan settlement.
What is Bluff?
How many months did the entire trek take instead of the planned 6 weeks?
What is 6 months?
This Utah town was the last major stop for the pioneers.
What is Escalante?
The pioneers carved a wagon road through this type of rock.
What is sandstone?
To get wagons down safely, the wheels were wrapped with these.
What are chains?
What is the name of the narrow crack the pioneers used to reach the Colorado River?
What is Hole in the Rock?
The number of wagons lost on the expedition.
What is 0?
The name of the steep hill the pioneers faced near the end of the journey.
What is San Juan Hill?
The number of pioneers who joined the Hole in the Rock expedition.
What is 250?
This tool was essential for cutting through solid rock.
What is a pickaxe?
Name of the present-day lake that now covers part of the original route.
What is Lake Powell?
How many wagons were taken through Hole in the Rock?
What is 83 wagons?
Today, much of the trail lies within this national monument.
What is the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument?
The expedition left in this year.
What is 1879?
The descent down Hole in the Rock dropped about this many feet.
What is about 1,300 feet?
What church leader issued the call to colonize the San Juan region?
Who is John Taylor?
After crossing the Colorado river, the pioneers still faced about how many miles of sandstone ravines, cliffs, box canyons, and sheer drop-offs?
What is 120 miles?
What spring served as the pioneer's base camp near Hole in the Rock?
What is Forty-Mile Spring?
What 3 Iron County towns supplied most of the expedition members?
What are Parowan, Paragonah, and Cedar City?
The expedition spent about this many weeks building the road through Hole in the Rock.
What is 6 weeks?
This leader headed the early San Juan exploring party.
Who is Silas S. Smith?
Approximately how many head of cattle traveled with the expedition?
What is 1,000 head of cattle?
What later route eventually replaced the Hole in the Rock trail as the easier crossing?
What is Hall's Crossing?
When did the pioneers arrive at their destination?
What is April 6, 1880?