High Mountain Doings

From 8200 feet along one side of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in central Colorado, my blog is about many things: travel including river and bicycle trips, and other experiences as well. The focus is on photography, not lots of text.

Saturday, May 20, 2006

On the Water



Above, the raft captained by Thomas is underway. We didn't launch until 5:35 pm, which is the latest time I'd ever started a river trip! But the river was swift at this medium level (about 11,000 cubic feet per second that day) and we made the approximately ten miles to camp by around 7:30. Darkness followed after a short while, but we had a fine meal and time to set up the camp.

Later, the raft captained by Charlie negotiates a narrow place near the end of an island where one of the channels is moving over to meet the other. I had gone through a parallel channel and had eddied out. This was near the Faultline Camp, where the group had stopped for a hike and for lunch. More photos later about this place....

2 Comments:

At 5/27/2006 8:04 PM, Blogger Kathryn said...

These photos tell such a great story of the trip, i love the pics of the kids preparing meals and Thomas reading from Powell's journal.

 
At 5/27/2006 9:34 PM, Blogger Tom Rampton said...

The meal preparation was good, and Thomas read to the line at dinner! It was a good strategy.

 

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