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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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More great reasons to live here!

Dandelion Days and beer by the river…..  Last weekend Carbondale had the annual Dandelion Days festival. I love a town that celebrates dandelions! Dandelion beer, wine and even dandelion salad was available. Great free music and great eco-friendly vendors including … 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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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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Time for another raft trip…

There is nothing like river time. The last time I did this stretch of river it was flowing at nearly 5000cfs. This time it was under 1200cfs. So we camped along the way. Yarmony Grass music festival was happening this … 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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