Top Ten List of Things that Happened on our Middle Fork of the Salmon Trip
10. Lizzette was the only girl.
9. Karl who was 72 years old rode in my boat and had a 44 magnum strapped to his side the whole time. (Way nice guy.)
8. Theral was the caboose. He got the nickname of mother goose because he was in charge of the ducky (Inflatable kayaks, IK’s)
7. Guy missed the corrected camp site and we ended up camping not at lower jackass but Guy’s jackass camp.
6. The camera was dropped in the water twice. The first time it recovered but the second time it could not come back.
5. We didn’t need to pack because some many other people were packing the heat.
4. Needed one more day on the river. Five days is a little bit fast.
3. I messed up my right birdie finger. I don’t know how it happened but my finger still hurts.
2. Guy is adopting us. We totally have a Middle Fork connection for the rest of our lives.
1. Theral broke a rib. His downstream oar caught some rocks and then came back and hit him and lifted him off the floor of the boat and totally gave him a good jab in the ribs.
I will keep posting about what we have been up to. It is going to take a few days to get caught up.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Driving across the country…………..
Theral had his family reunion last week in Nauvoo, Illinois. (WOW, my spelling is way off today.) He made it out with any mishaps. Theral also made it back with out any mishaps. He managed to do that with twizzlers, wheat thins and books on tape. If he ever needed a second job he could be a trucker. I wouldn’t like that very much but the man can drive. Theral forgot to take the camera so sorry I can’t post any pictures. I told him to go buy a disposable camera but I don’t think that he did. He did bring back some gingerbread cookies for me to eat. They were good.
Last week seemed to go by in a blur. I had class in the morning and then work in the afternoon. This week we have a river rescue course in Green River for the weekend. It should prove to be useful. It is on my least favorite stretch of white water in the state, the Green River Daily section. It looks as if once we get back from that we will be floating the Middle Fork. That should be fun.
Last week seemed to go by in a blur. I had class in the morning and then work in the afternoon. This week we have a river rescue course in Green River for the weekend. It should prove to be useful. It is on my least favorite stretch of white water in the state, the Green River Daily section. It looks as if once we get back from that we will be floating the Middle Fork. That should be fun.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Busy Busy Busy
So Theral bought a kayak. That is a long story. He bought it from a guy in Grand Junction. He was going to go kayak ‘Straight Canyon’ which is the canyon up the road from were I grew up at. He couldn’t drop it off at my parent’s house because my parents were not going to be home (There was a primary election last Tuesday, who knew!). So we moved on to plan B. Theral and I decided to go and float the San Rafael River this past weekend. It was great. Theral wanted to go pick up the kayak in Grand Junction Friday night so he could use it on Saturday. That didn’t happen. We pick up the IK’s (inflatable kayaks) from Rick and ended up visiting for a while. So we decided to leave at 5:00 am to head down instead of 12:00 am. Theral didn’t have his phone on him and poor Steve (that’s the guy Theral bought it from) left a really funny message asking what was going on. Have no fear, Steve was has heading to Ogden on Sunday to go and float the Middle Fork of the Salmon. So Sunday, he met him in Wellington and pick up his new water toy. My Dad and Theral brother bother thought it looked a little small, which it is not because the newer kayaks are shorter. So Theral took it to the pool last night to work on his roll and it was bad. The kayak was set up for Steve not Theral’s body. So when Theral got home he started working on getting the kayak set up for him. So I will post more about how this new adventure is working out.
Theral is headed back for his family reunion in Illinois. I’m a little bit concerned about it due to the flooding that has been happening. I need to call and talk to a few people to figure out what are the conditions. If it is at all questionable we will have a talk.
So we had a nice visit with my parents this past weekend. There was some great one liner’s from my Mom and Dad that made the trip all worth while in my book.
“Quit micro-managing his dumps.”
“I associated a docking station with Star Trek.”
“I’m not going to visit you in Logan because you haven’t used the (computer) stuff that I sent you.”
“We can pull the trailer to Green River for that.”
“They are having trouble. I know they are having trouble.” We did because the four-wheeler we used for the shuttle battery died and it took an hour to charge the battery to load it.
Classic Theral and Lizzette, we thought we had floated further then we had and took a few long stops at the wrong location looking for pictographs panels. When it hit 7:30 it was time to bust it out to get done. We had five to six miles to go and we totally were done in an hour and ten minutes. The float was really pretty. I should have taken more pictures but it was in a dry bag and not really easy accesses.
I use an internet alias for things that I don’t want people to have my name for. Yesterday in the mail I got return address labels with that name on it from some wildlife fund group. Classic. I’m going to use them because the address is correct and I think that mail will get returned to me. Mail is coming to me with that name why can’t it get returned to me with that name. I got two things from triple A the other week, one for my name and the other for the internet alias. I’m going to post how the return address label looks. It is classic. Yet to use a better phrase, LENGENDARY.
Theral is headed back for his family reunion in Illinois. I’m a little bit concerned about it due to the flooding that has been happening. I need to call and talk to a few people to figure out what are the conditions. If it is at all questionable we will have a talk.
So we had a nice visit with my parents this past weekend. There was some great one liner’s from my Mom and Dad that made the trip all worth while in my book.
“Quit micro-managing his dumps.”
“I associated a docking station with Star Trek.”
“I’m not going to visit you in Logan because you haven’t used the (computer) stuff that I sent you.”
“We can pull the trailer to Green River for that.”
“They are having trouble. I know they are having trouble.” We did because the four-wheeler we used for the shuttle battery died and it took an hour to charge the battery to load it.
Classic Theral and Lizzette, we thought we had floated further then we had and took a few long stops at the wrong location looking for pictographs panels. When it hit 7:30 it was time to bust it out to get done. We had five to six miles to go and we totally were done in an hour and ten minutes. The float was really pretty. I should have taken more pictures but it was in a dry bag and not really easy accesses.
I use an internet alias for things that I don’t want people to have my name for. Yesterday in the mail I got return address labels with that name on it from some wildlife fund group. Classic. I’m going to use them because the address is correct and I think that mail will get returned to me. Mail is coming to me with that name why can’t it get returned to me with that name. I got two things from triple A the other week, one for my name and the other for the internet alias. I’m going to post how the return address label looks. It is classic. Yet to use a better phrase, LENGENDARY.
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