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San Juan River Trip

Friends of mine have talked about the San Juan for ages. This year we all applied for permits and no-one got one! But on a cancellation my friend got one so we were very excited to go. He cautioned that … Continue reading

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Fall rafting – the latest ever!

Fall break came later this year so I was sceptical about the possibility of a fall rafting/camping trip in our beloved Utah location. We couldn’t do the trip last year so we really wanted to go. Luckily the weather looked … Continue reading

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Rafting the Roaring Fork

Wow – no rafting in May this year. But we made it on June 1st! We put in at Carbondale and took out at Glenwood Springs at the Two Rivers park just after the confluence of the Roaring Fork and … Continue reading

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The last raft trip for 2012….

After last year’s beautiful trip to Utah for the final raft trip of 2011 we thought we would do it again this year. This trip was really special as we didn’t get any rafting with camping trips in this year … Continue reading

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The Last Rafting Trip of the Season….

Mid October and the time has come for the last rafting trip for this summer. Taking advantage of the beautiful weather we headed to Utah. We put in at the old Dewey Bridge and shuttled the trailers to Takeout Beach. … Continue reading

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Last weekend – rafting and skiing!

Wow – where else can you go rafting and skiing on the same weekend? I love living here:) We went rafting on a section of the Colorado known as Ruby Horsethief. As we were able to get on the river … Continue reading

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Yarmony again

The upper Colorado is running at around 4500cfs. Tried to get there early enough to do Pumphouse through to Rancho but ended up doing the Radium to Ranch del Rio stretch instead – turned out to be the right choice. … Continue reading

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Rafting on the Roaring Fork

Rafting again 🙂 I put my cataraft together last Saturday and got it into the river today! The Roaring Fork is not running very high – around 1600cfs so I only went from Carbondale to Westbank. A lovely 2.5 hour … Continue reading

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Yes it is expensive to live here but….

Friday morning I was working in my office. The river was calling, it was almost 80 degrees without a cloud in the sky and I realised that I could work later… so I got my IK and headed for the … Continue reading

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And all that snow has to go somewhere!

So we went rafting!!!! Great day on the upper Colorado. Flowing at 4990cfs. I often raft this section at 1800cfs – so quite a different river. I’ve only done this section running this high once before. Lots of fun!

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