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Sombeech

Alex's connections shone down upon me once again as he scored some spots on the Yampa River in Colorado for last week. We were on the river for 5 days, with 25 of us. It was without incident, things went great.

Out of the 5 days, we only saw another group of people on the 4th and 5th day. :2thumbs:

Wednesday - drive and camp at the launch
Thursday - raft to Ponderosa campground
Friday - raft to Harding's Hole campground, do a cool day hike to an overlook
Saturday - short hike up to a cool cave, Warm Springs rapid, raft to Box Elder camp (maybe Jones Hole, I forget), Campaoke singing along to iPod
Sunday - raft and take a day hike at Echo Boat Ramp to a sweet crack in the rock & petroglyphs, raft again to Island Park camp
Monday - raft to the take out, drive home

Hold on to yer shorts, here's a bunch of video and pictures from the trip....

Click the HQ on the video players

various Yampa River footage

Scott, Alex, and I running Warm Springs Rapid for the first time

Me, joining the Paddle Boat chaos on Warm Springs Rapid

Row Row Row Your Boat

Alex needs to practice with his hat a little more

Campaoke

Another group from Salt Lake City that we ran into

Our group on the Warm Springs rapid

Paddleboat getting owned by kids on raft. LOL

Camping life on the Yampa

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Cirrus2000 · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 2261 Location: Cascadia

Sweet! You forgot to label all the pics though... Looks like a great trip. One of these days, I gotta try a rafting trip. Very cool.

Sombeech · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 12:14 am Post subject:

Cirrus2000 wrote: Sweet! You forgot to label all the pics though...

Maybe tomorrow. :haha:

abirken · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 3207 Location: Colorado

you all can just kiss my ass......b/c this looks like WAY too much fun and I'm jealous. haha!! awesome trip ya'll!! hey Alex- those Krav classes are doing the body well. :2thumbs:

CarpeyBiggs · Joined: 18 Mar 2007 Posts: 2685 Location: the promised land

insane jealousy. very cool. :2thumbs:

trackrunner · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1934

So why didn't you pick me up while you were packing Alex's truck. :ne_nau:

I was just around the corner 500ft.

Sombeech · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:51 am Post subject:

Thanks everybody, it was awesome. I've got to get around to labeling those photos, maybe tonight. Seeing the confluence of the Green and Yampa was cool.

trackrunner wrote: So why didn't you pick me up while you were packing Alex's truck. :ne_nau:

I was just around the corner 500ft.

That's my truck actually, but if you can get access to a boat, you should join Alex this weekend on Westwater, should be raging. :2thumbs:

trackrunner · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1934

Sombeech wrote:
That's my truck actually :2thumbs:

Yes I know. I mis wrote the words. Ment pack up the the truck at Alex's house.

toovinnie · Joined: 13 Mar 2007 Posts: 5

It is all fun and games until the bottlecap pops into your eye!

Beware sharp edges!

accadacca · Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 9973 Location: On my Beemer

Epic trip.

Epic paddler fail coming soon... :haha:

Jaxx · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 2638

Looks like a blast! Now pamper your wives so they let you go next time it comes up.

Sombeech · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

I just added 3 more videos

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2983 Location: SLC, UT

Jaxx wrote: Looks like a blast! Now pamper your wives so they let you go next time it comes up.

Done, going this weekend, then the next :2thumbs:

James_B_Wads2000 · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 10:14 pm Post subject:

To Alex, Justin and Scott... I hate your guts. :frustrated:

James

Alex · Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 2983 Location: SLC, UT

James_B_Wads2000 wrote: To Alex, Justin and Scott... I hate your guts. :frustrated:
James

:cry: :hippy: