I just got these pictures from Linda and Bob. They are fantastic so I'm posting some more. I hope that you enjoy the blog. Make comments when you can, helps to keep in touch. Thanks again for the great trip everyone. It was life changing for me.
Here is the rapid that seemed to eat everyone. Captain Command: ALL FORWARD PADDLE!!! I'm taken under the boat and don't pop out until the end. Remember to watch for the yellow helmet!
More Wild River Times ! I'm posting three river clips--what an adventure. I'm on the right side of the boat with the yellow helmet The Captain's command: All Enjoy!
Here we are on the Locksa river. We did section 3 at about 6800 cfs water level. At run off the ruver was 18,000 cfs. IT was FAST! It was POWERFUL. We flipped 3 boats and some crew swam over 6 times. I was under the boat 2 times and frozen only once. Mark and Frank offered to have me finish the run with them...but I was too cold and I was afraid if we went out, I wouldn't have the strength to swim out again. Enjoy the pictures.
WOW! We just returned from the big Idaho trip. We ran the Locksa and Payette Rivers for 5 days. We slammed, bammed, rammed, jammed, crammed, and swam ourselves into rafts, rigging, "duckies", and gained new friends along the way--Hi Frank and Mark! We faced death, then we ate, faced death and ate, faced death and ate...hummm...do we see a pattern here? The water was BIG and it was powerful, but it was great fun.
Here is the birthday cake for Kellis! I can't believe that he is 10 years old. We did water balloon, "sharpeeto" attack (a pokemon game), Shave "Pek-a-chu", swim, pizza, sleep-over, and lots of gifts! Here are the photos