Paddle Oar Die Rafting: Desolation Canyon

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Desolation Canyon

Hi Everybody

I'm planning a trip this June to run the Green River through Desolation Canyon.

I haven’t called in to get a permit yet, but I'm planning on getting one to launch on June 8th. Plan on needing June 7 -13 off of work or other things, as this is a 5 day trip. The permit costs 25 dollars per person and I would like this money from you to reserve your spot prior to calling in(Thanksgiving weekend would be ideal). EVERYONE IS INVITED! We can accommodate up to 16 persons that includes children. This has been a favorite run of ours. The 25 dollar fee does not include sharing the fuel and food costs.

People reserved so far:

Ron (paid)
Logan (paid)
Sydney (paid)
Lucas (paid)
Cash (unpaid)
Flint (unpaid)
Mark (unpaid)
Jesse (unpaid)
Klint (unpaid)

10 comments:

Anisa said...: Very creative title. I want a picture that has me in it on the site.

Anisa; November 7, 2007 at 3:38 PM
Anisa said...: When is the date for the Grand Canyon trip? YOu should put that on there too.; November 7, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Lib-Dawg said...: You should call Cash and let him know since he isn't into the whole internet thing...And I want to go down the Grand Canyon!!! I was going to talk to Uncle Ron over Thanksgiving - do I need to go through you?; November 7, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Lucashell said...: Logan Put Shellie and Lucas Down - I e-mailed Debbie to see if she will babysit for me..So I can go with you guys!!!; November 7, 2007 at 7:08 PM
Chet & Carma Kids said...: Logan, I am trying for some Idaho and Wyoming Trips or Ladore or Yampa or somewhere Northwest. I'm looking for a Mountain River Trip with Bears and Fish. Fill your Trip up with people wanting a Great First River Experience Thanks Josh; November 8, 2007 at 1:37 PM
Anisa said...: Thanks for the pic. That may be the only trip I go in since Lucas & Shellie always take my baby sitter.; November 9, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Lucashell said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; November 9, 2007 at 3:54 PM
Lucashell said...: Since we have had Legz we have barley used Debbie. If we counted we could use her a ton more times to catch up to you. But I think it is just an excuse because you have all of Ryans Family to help you. We only have your mom to help us, so if she is not available I cannot go. I don't trust my family to watch legacy - Logan knows what I am talking about!!!; November 9, 2007 at 4:00 PM
Mrs Buchanan said...: I'll go on a river trip if Sydney goes, and not a really long one either.; November 10, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Mrs Buchanan said...: I'm really thinking about going on this one. When do you need to know for sure?; November 15, 2007 at 7:08 PM

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“Oh! Oh! There he goes!” Laughs Ryan, as he sees his beloved business partner Nathan flop out of his big red kayak. "Heheheee” The sound of Ryan’s laughter echoed off the canyon walls as we all watched Nathan as he floated down through the first and biggest rapid on our day trip through Split Mountain on the Green River.

As family and friends, we went on a rafting trip in dinosaur national monument near Vernal Utah as well a Westwater, Near Grand Junction Colorado. The trip, as always, was full of fun and stories, which can be shared over and over again.

“It’s all in the hips,” Nathan’s buddy, Aaron said, after Nathan got his composure. “The water’s a little chilly but it’s not too bad,” boasted Nathan. Then once again Ryan’s laughter would ring through the canyon as we could see Nathan’s little black helmet bob up and down through another rapid.

Luckily through Split Mountain nothing got hurt, not even Nathan’s ego. After we all enjoyed our 9 mile float down the green river and load the gear back onto the trucks it was wondered what we were going to do for the rest of that beautiful Saturday. Nathan, who grew up in Vernal, told us about a place up on the Blue Mountain that had a really gorgeous look out and we could drive up there it was only 45 minutes away. We all agreed and head out on what turned out to be an hour and half long drive down a dirt road. The drive might have seemed longer, but the entertainment of hearing Anisa curse Nathan made the drive fly by.

“He said it was only going to take 45 minutes! It has been over an hour and I’m getting hungry!”

she would screech as she shook her fist at the truck in front of us.

Nathan my not have been right about the travel time, but he was right about how incredible the view was. Anisa’s rage did become slightly subdued when Aaron gave her and apple, and we all drove to Lake Stienaker to Camp for the night.

The next day we had a lovely tour of beautiful Vernal Utah as Nathan ran us all over the countryside to see what wonders Vernal had to offer. It turned out to be some Petroglyphs and his parent’s shower, for Ansia. Finally after Lucas refused to eat a sandwich with out tomatoes we headed down a long windy highway through some mountains of Colorado to get to the spot of out next launch in Westwater.

The Highlights or our camp at the launch point for west water was the arrival of the Laidlaw family and the intense thunder storm that blew through our camp. Tents nearly went into the water and they would have if we hadn’t been holding on to them. Once the storm died down it was calm and we enjoyed a nice Dutch oven cobbler.

The next morning we launched onto the mighty Colorado River with the water flow at the “Terrible Teen” rate of 14,000 cubic feet per second. Little did we know, what was in store for us later that day. It all started with a nice float down some fast moving flat water, then all of the sudden Josh yells, “We got Rapids!” We hit the Little Dolores, Marble Canyon, and Big Hummer rapid. Then, it was Funnel Falls. After the first two rafts went through we looked back to see black bottom side of the third raft floating down the river. With more and bigger rapids in front off us we tried to pull over and save the upside down boat, but there was no place to pull over. “Quit Laughing Ryan!” shouted a frantic Logan, “It’s Not Funny! We got more Rapids!” “Skull! The next one’s skull!” Aaron shouted from his kayak.
Just moments after Aaron shouted we witnessed another raft flip over in the midst of Skull rapid. While the final raft navigated safely through Skull Rapid we noticed Matt spinning circles in the “Room of Doom.” We pulled to the side and climbed around the cliff to pick up the stranded Matt, while the other two upside down rafts floated through the remainder of the rapids. After the river calmed down and the rafts were turned up right it was a nice leisurely float in the peaceful red rock canyon to the Cisco landing, with gentle giggle of Ryan still bouncing off the canyon walls.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Desolation Canyon

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