It's been a while since my last post, but a lot has happened. I was called upon to go down to Colorado for a a family reunion. With gas prices so high I was a bit hesitant yet it's been a long time since I've seen my Mom's side of the family. I also thought about last year when I did a similar trip and had a blast kayaking and catching up with old friends. Unfortunately Maggie Couldn't come due the job search. Unable to persuade her I loaded up the kayaks and the climbing gear and headed down south.
The first stop was my Dad's house North of Fort Collins and a chance to run the Cache La Poudre. The Poudre is a small rocky river the runs at approximately one tenth the size of the Lochsa. Not as ambitious as I was last year I only ran some of the more moderate stretches lower down the scenic canyon.
After leaving Northern Colorado I set my sights on the Arkansas River. I had plans to run the Numbers section, but the timing was off. A difficult run of boulder gardens at low water and a series of stacked holes when high the Numbers were out of the question for me at 1000 cfs above the commercial limit. I did however run Brown's Canyon, a step down from the numbers, both in a raft with my sister and some local friends, and repeated most of the run in my kayak. The water level was a bit intense to say the least. Out of the seven days I was in the area the local paper reported four deaths on various stretches of the river. It may have been for the best that I didn't push myself. Continued...
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