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Cal Salmon: I love this little area of the world... how beautiful it is.
EDIT: 2 Funny stories, one about about the pic above and one about rafting's small world in general: So as my dad and I are going through all of our collective whitewater pics from the years and years of rafting he did before I was into it and all of my trips from the last 15 years... Turns out , and I already knew this but, he had run the cal salmon at the same time of year only 20+ odd years earlier and as were going through all our pics we come to find we have almost 3-4 pics that are near identical (same river level, spot taken everything) along that river... Only again his are 20 something years earlier. I just thought it was funny that I, his son would somehow decide to stand and take a pic of the river in the exact same spot and that It would still be so simillar looking and what not. It's like my gene's were telling me to take the pic hahahaha. It made him chuckle too though, he never thought that I'd be embarassing him on river counts by my 31st birthday. See my Dad went out with his buddies every year called the "Newport River Rats" and they'd run a few rivers, or run the Colorado but they always got on at least one river (big trip) a ear. Well, I hapen to be going to WMI's W-EMT program what now 9 years or so ago down in Oakdale Cali. and were staying in this "backpackers" that we have this huge barn/sleeping quarters in... So, one day I'm sitting at the bar having a beer and a guy walks up to me wearing one of my dad's "Newport River Rats - Merced/Toulmne" shirts... Even crazier is that
I happen to be wearing the exact same shirt!!! :Wow1: Needless to say we talked for a few hours and many beers, turns out he had been my dad's guide/shuttle back in the day ( in 1980 something...) and they'd given him one of their t-shirts... Even funnuier was that of the few T-shirts I had with me on that trip... my other shirt was
THE very same "Zephyr River Expeditions" shirt that the same guy had given my dad back then in return of the favor :Wow1: ... I made sure to get my self an oar frame to row and ended up running the Merced with one their guided runs the next day :wings: . Great guy's at Zephyr. Talk about a small world though eh!!! I love stuff like that. Sorry for the ramble but I think it;s a neat story.
Home sweet home... Since upgraded to a "roll-a-cot" and a Big Agnes 0deg Bag... I like to be warm when I sleep
Hussom Falls White Salmon River:
Somewhere along the Payette in ID. (edit: no that's the Lochsa River. I love that river...)
On an interesting side note, I was looking through AEV's web site yesterday and noticed in the Brute section that they're boaters as well and were packign into the Selway, a River we got shut out of last year due to snow...wich it seems they weren't worried about eh
Cheers
Dave
