June 13 Trip Report
With reasonably high water and six days to cover the 100 miles of white water we had plenty of time to relax at lunch and in camp.
The group set the tone for the trip during lunch on day one when Harley and Danica spread out on the pea-gravel. An impromptu post-Velvet Falls/post-lunch nap session began as Kyle and Tara sprawled out in the sun followed soon after by their father Dekkers on the front deck of an oar boat and their mother Barb in the shade.
Harley and Danica setting the napping pace. The others just kept falling like flies, very sleepy flies:
We camped at Scout camp on night one and soaked in the springs. We spent night two at Stateland Left and had a pick-up ultimate frisbee on the Thomas Creek airstrip. We arrived at our third night's camp in time for lunch, a nap and a hike up to an overlook all before dinner.
Overcast skies on day 4 brought heaps and heaps of migrating Western Tanagers to the river, swarming and dive bombing us as we floated and filling camp with their thrills and whistles in camp.
Bighorn Sheep, including a young ram at Bridal Vail Falls.
Rocky guide Tim-O does the whoo-hoo dance of Joy on the last day in Impassable Canyon.
Thanks everyone for a wonderfully relaxing and internal battery charging week on the Middle Fork.
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