August 11
Camp Name
No Name
Daylight
13 hours / 47 minutes
Brightness of the Moon
7%
Distance Traveled
0 leagues / 0 miles
Weather
Heavy downpour and severe, damp cold
Water Resources
The East Fork of the Mancos River
Journal Description for August 11th
On the 11th, notwithstanding the severe cold and wetness we were now experiencing, we were unable to change our location, for Padre Fray Francisco Atanasio awoke very much exhausted from the trouble mentioned, and with some fever. For this reason we could not go over to see the sierra’s metallic veins and rocks mentioned,65These “veins and rocks” in the La Plata Mountains had been mentioned by earlier expeditions into the area even though they were a short distance away, as one companion who had seen them on another occasion assured us.66
Refers to Andrés Muñiz, who had been with the Juan María de Rivera expedition of 1765 and perhaps on later expeditions as well..
Miller Report Summary
U.S. Highway 160 parallels the course of the trail most of the way between Hesperus and the East Mancos River. The expedition reached that stream just upstream from its confluence with the West Mancos—the two branches form the Mancos River. The camp was some three miles east-northeast of the present town of Mancos. The Spanish party remained there two days, August 10 and 11, because Father Dominguez was ill.
Notable Event
N/AD&E and Crew Activity
“On the 11th . . . Padre Fray Francisco Atanasio awoke very much exhausted . . . with some fever.”DEEEP’s Field Notes
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August 11, 1776
By Robert McDaniel: DEEEP Team Member
On the 11th day, the expedition had to lay over because Fray Atanasio was sick.
