. the spot was about a fifteen minute walk from he campsite , beteen the boat beach and a nearby suspension brige .
the first park service aerial searches began late that afternoon , by helicopter . fixed - wing craft joined the search before dusk .
the forst day , especially during the first few of hours afer dawn , the alarm level about the girl's absence was low . most of the people who were helping to look for jaana expected her to wander back into camp at any moment .
everyone was assuming she had gone off by herself to explore and perhaps had gotten injured . some guesses she'd headed up the north kaibab toward ribbon falls . others thought she was on the river trail on the other side of the colorado . most of the initial anxiety was that she might not have carried enough water with her on her morning hike .
the search coninued without success for a second day .
late the second aftternoon , the grueling heat wave that had beeen smothering northern arizona finally broke .shortly after three o'clock the hot , still air was supplanted by gusty winds . skies darkened to the sound and to the west . campers on the floor of the anyon heard a series of distant thunderclaps .
visitors four thousand feet below the rim lacked the vantage to be able to see the approach of storm clouds , but a big , slow-moving thunderstorm had filled the void of the departing high pressure and stalled above the bright angel pahntom creek drainage , rain began falling onto the drainage at te rate of more than an inch every twentu minutes .by shortly after six o'clock , rainwater overhelmed the arroys and natural channels , torrents of runoff poured from the slot canyons into the tributaies of the colorado , and at 6:13 in the evening a ferocious wall of water exploded down bright angel creek into the colorado river .
the flash floor picked up rocks and debiris at the onfluence of the creek , near pahntom ranch , any hope of finding clues on nearby trails or beach vanished as fast-moving flood jumped the banks of colorado and scoured the intire floor plain between the canyon walls .
the first park service aerial searches began late that afternoon , by helicopter . fixed - wing craft joined the search before dusk .
the forst day , especially during the first few of hours afer dawn , the alarm level about the girl's absence was low . most of the people who were helping to look for jaana expected her to wander back into camp at any moment .
everyone was assuming she had gone off by herself to explore and perhaps had gotten injured . some guesses she'd headed up the north kaibab toward ribbon falls . others thought she was on the river trail on the other side of the colorado . most of the initial anxiety was that she might not have carried enough water with her on her morning hike .
the search coninued without success for a second day .
late the second aftternoon , the grueling heat wave that had beeen smothering northern arizona finally broke .shortly after three o'clock the hot , still air was supplanted by gusty winds . skies darkened to the sound and to the west . campers on the floor of the anyon heard a series of distant thunderclaps .
visitors four thousand feet below the rim lacked the vantage to be able to see the approach of storm clouds , but a big , slow-moving thunderstorm had filled the void of the departing high pressure and stalled above the bright angel pahntom creek drainage , rain began falling onto the drainage at te rate of more than an inch every twentu minutes .by shortly after six o'clock , rainwater overhelmed the arroys and natural channels , torrents of runoff poured from the slot canyons into the tributaies of the colorado , and at 6:13 in the evening a ferocious wall of water exploded down bright angel creek into the colorado river .
the flash floor picked up rocks and debiris at the onfluence of the creek , near pahntom ranch , any hope of finding clues on nearby trails or beach vanished as fast-moving flood jumped the banks of colorado and scoured the intire floor plain between the canyon walls .
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