Chris Friday
This morning began a little on the rough side for me due to
our group tarp soaking several of ,my bags and gear items during takedown. I
tried not to let that phase me however. No matter how bad my morning was, it
couldn’t possibly compare to the amount of bad luck Bob and Julia would soon
face. We got to our first rapids of the day, Sun Rapids. I watched with Emily
as one by one we each attempted our first real challenge at then rapids. We
watched as each one of us made it successfully, until Bob and Julia tried to
paddle with a canoe full of water. It didn’t really work out for them all that
well though. Emily and I made it through pretty much unscathed. I think this
had something to do with how light we both are. We kind of just glided over all
the haystacks, while everyone else tried to plow through them all. We survivors
all then tried to gather the floating gear of Bob and Julia. Those few twigs
among us tried to help get the canoe out of the water, but were quickly sent
away by the grey dude with the beard. Once that was all taken care of, we
pressed on with our day of rapids. Shortly thereafter, Emily and I experienced
our first challenge of the day in getting stuck on some rocks. We prevailed of
course and became cocky enough to try the rapids backwards, which we also
handled with flying colors, that is until we got stuck again shortly after a
little ways down the river, facing forwards this time though. We totally should
have just stayed backwards. Barrell Rapids was scouted successfully and cautiously.
We decided to portage our gear for this one after seeing several possible
hazards that lied within. The portage path was an interesting one that was
covered in many interesting and possibly magical mushrooms. This excited those
of us who enjoy fungi, me included. When we arrived at Peterbell, our campsite
for the night, we were met with much mud. Jeff was right, now that we hit mud,
I really miss the sand. This campsite was large and contained some pretty cool
rocks, that I will talk about after paddling tomorrow. I’m done now so
goodnight folks. Good morning for when I read this. I’m just trying to reach a
page and a half at this point. Close enough.
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