Borrowed Koklynn’s picture from her Picassa album of the event! Hope she doesn’t mind :)
You would think that a larger group of rafters would be associated with a greater probability of a trip gone awry. Alas, I’m slightly disappointed that I have no mishaps to report! On the upside, all 24 of us are alive and intact, so, you know, I guess that’s a good thing.
Whitewater rafting is generally considered a summertime activity, but this year we were trying to catch the North Fork rapids which are not controlled by the dam, so we had to settle with a springtime trip. Unfortunately, the rapids are thus controlled solely by the rain, and it poured cats and dogs on Friday night, thus rendering the North Fork unpredictable and dangerous. Even the raft guides said they wouldn’t run the North Fork under those conditions, so they took us to the South Fork, which, under normal circumstances is more mellow, but with the rain, became a continuous stretch of fun rapids named like “Satan’s Cesspool”. Despite the cold and rain, it was a lot of fun, and I’m 0 for 2 for falling overboard! We’ll see how next year goes…
nelson
on May 4th, 2009
@ 6:34 pm:
don’t you mean 2 for 2 at staying on the raft!
Reid
on May 4th, 2009
@ 10:25 pm:
We did go down troublemaker in reverse =)
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on May 4th, 2009
@ 11:02 pm:
[...] we couldn’t raft on the North Fork, which had risen to a ridiculous and unsafe height. Since Kolina already wrote about the trip, I’ll just add that the South Fork did not disappoint, which [...]