At the end of the long day, one of the volunteers found Adams’s body five miles downstream. The man “had washed off to the side and was facedown,” Nielson remembered. “His Levis and his chaps were hanging down on his boots. Evidently he had tried to get his clothes off so he could swim.” Jacobs Chair, the striking butte that rises 1,700 feet from its base between Long and Gravel Canyons, is named after Adams.
