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Rafting Trip - Somewhere in Colorado (Part IV of the trip)
At the request of my hosts, I am not naming this river. It is a little bit too unspoiled and seldom-run, and we don't want this area to get indexed on the internet as to its location. Trip crew was: Liam and Kristin, Bill and Joyce, Steve and Drea, Dez, Matt, Brad and Tony.

See the movie clips! (best results for viewing are to right-click on the link and save as...)
Liam Rowing (1MB WMV) Didgeridoo (1.14MB WMV) Swamped Canoe (790k WMV)
Riffle Canyon (2MB WMV) Sunset Canyon (1.2MB WMV) Liam & Kristin (1MB WMV)
Swamped Kayak (600k WMV) Brad & Matt (1.6MB WMV) Brad at Camp 1 (1MB WMV)

May 4-6, 2005

Rafting
The gathering at the "take-out" on the river. That is Liam Duncan front and center. The Bedrock Store, at the "take out" area near the river. It was part of a scene in the movie "Thelma and Louise," so I'll have to watch that movie again now, dangit.
Brad negotiated 4 bags of our extra ice to buy some favor with the owner (on the right). Yep, we gave away extra ice... The Bedrock Store, established in 1887. Might be earlier, but not later, I swear.
The put-in event on the river. That's Matt. We had to inflate one big boat, and organize about 28,000 tons of ice, beer, meat and whiskey. A reverse view of Matt as my driver in the canoe, which I only did for two hours until sunset after the put-in at 5:50 pm.
Kristin looking over initial dinner on Wednesday night. We hit the bank at 8:00pm and started camp, and the pros started working... Matt and Brad with the M1A2 Abrams-grade Main Battle Tank steel fire pit, which we had to haul if we wanted a fire on the river.
Kristin and Joyce supervising dinner. It was my 37th BIRTHDAY this evening! The whole crew sang me the "Birthday Dirge" and I got a Twinkie with a lit fuze in it. I actually cried at the effort. Morning rush at the first landing site, 6 miles from the "put-in" and coffee is king.
Matt enjoying a mug of morning "Joe"
Bill on his new boat.
Drea in her inflatable kayak before May 4 morning pushoff.
Matt and Brad commanding the canoe
on day two.
Steve scraped a rock the night before and was taking on water. The "rapid pump" was used often, and not just by him.
It is a lot of work to pump out water from an inflatable canoe!
Matt and Brad somehow squeezed themselves and their canoe under a fallen tree (called a "strainer") and actually survived. Note that they wore their helmets after this episode.
Liam and his dog, Sakari. Also known as just "Kari." Liam said the name Sakari means "Sweet" in Eskimo, and he chose an Alaskan native name for her.
Liam taking a quality photo from his Admiral chair.
A huge overhang over the river.
Everyone "eddied out" here and we took pee breaks and photos.
Liam at the helm.
Sakari looking alert on the river.
Bill "The Other Bill" having a good time on our boat. He got kicked off of his own boat so the women could row and take pees.
A minor riffle, but enough of something to be a challenge to Matt and Brad in the canoe!
Our stop for lunch on day 2.
Matt
Tony
Dez on the Deck!
Happy to be alive, I think.
Kristin purposely being a dork for my camera!
Kristin checking the bow rescue line.
No laughing matter on that one,
and it did come out twice for emergencies..
Kristin and Drea describing the river...
Brad enjoying a drink at lunch on Day 2.
Dez having a good time...
Joyce and Kristin making super sandwiches!
A toast to the sandwich-makers!
Liam and Matt checking maps to see how far we can get until the end of daylight...safely.
Our lunch spot
Matt
Matt, striking out for part II on day II
Matt and Brad running some nice
rapids in their canoe!
Matt and Brad running some nice
rapids in their canoe!
  Steve (left) and Brad (standing) and Bill "the Other Bill" (sitting) on our last beaching.
Steve all dressed up on "Formal Night" which Matt never warned us about! Steve and Drea in "Formal Wear"
Awww...
The whole crew minus the photographer
Brad and Matt on Formal Night. No formal wear was brought out by us. We had a substitute!
The "Other Bill" brought props, man!
Brad and Matt, feeling no pain.
Dez brought a hula-hoop for crying out loud! I brought a camera in a waterproof Lexan case...I shouldn't have been surprised, actually.
Matt and Brad on Friday morning push-off. We had to leave early from the crew to get me back towards Denver and my flight home.
A view from me as the heavyweight "duffer" in the canoe. We were on our own without help from here. Everyone was nervous.
Bighorn Sheep caught high on the walls from my "duffer" photo position in the canoe.
After the S-Curve Class IIIA rapids and the Anasazi pictographs. Bear prints! The Locals made these about 900 years ago, man.
Depictions of the aliens who visited them before they extracted the Anasazi to Antaries IV?
If that isn't an alien I don't know what is...
More bear prints scratched into the walls from nearly 1,000 years ago before they left.
I was careful to see some color of daisies growing next to cacti.
The last good scene before the thunderstorm rode right over us at 50mph and almost swamped our canoe with hail.
 

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