Wednesday, September 23, 2009

River X

My buddy Drew and I went on a mission to a relatively secret fishing spot yesterday requiring an immense amount of work just to get the boat wet. Once we got the boat to the river, it was worth all the effort! In the interest of going back to this river in the future and not seeing anyone else, I have omitted the name of it. (More pictures to come later on in the week)

This river is remote and was well worth it as the crowd factor was zero and the stoke factor high.

Although I can't give up the name of the river on the internet, one can at least figure out that the Tetons look backwards from the river!

Drew's truck perched on the edge sizing up the slide.

We were a two man team rappelling the raft down the river, me, at the bottom making feeble attempts to slow it down.

Drew with the raft on belay (the slope is a lot steeper than in looks in the pictures!)

Working our way down the slope. We had to set up rappel stations from tree to tree depending on how much rope we had left to give.

Drew letting the raft go over a 10-ft cliff

Thankfully raft rubber is durable

Yep, it was this crazy

Finally, serenity now, we got the boat to the water after an hour of hard work

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