My first visitors

So I had my first visitors from Cal come out last weekend. Jaime, Russel, Sam and James came out for a couple days over the 4th of July weekend and we hit up the river. The first night we hit the Bighorn Sheep Canyon with a little booze cruise. We put in above three rocks and went down to old parkdale, the half day run. We loaded up the boat with beer and whiskey and went for our float. After making sure they could paddle, which was pretty pathetic at first I pretty much gave them a break and deadsticked most of the river so they could concentrate on the important stuff, drinking. We had a good run down and a good few beers. Jaime had the Jim Beam kicking and I certainly indulged. We eddies out at double dip and once we set off agian I hardly remember guiding the river. We had people riding the bull and taking pictures. I think I kicked them out of the boat inthe last rapid and made them swim but I really can't remember. We managed to make it back to base in good shape and supposedly I even made it to the bar for about 5 minutes before heading to bed.

The next day I guided a morning trip before trying to hook up a gorge trip for the boys. I was having a difficult time getting a gorge guide to go. Everyone said maybe and wouldn't commit. Finaly I talked to Dolan and he hooked me up with Taylor who wasn't a gorge guide yet but is working towards it this year. So we were all set. We had a guide so got the boat loaded, ran a shuttle car into town and got on the river. We were a bit later than usual but in good time. We had some supplies again in the form of beer and whiskey once again but I was certainly going to pace myself a bit. We had an awesome trip and Taylor styled all the lines. We chilled out in corner pocket for a while before ending up the cruise. Right at the end in town I was sitting on the back of the boat with a beer, not really locked in and we hit the smallest little ripple in the river but it was enough. I had the most slow motion fall ever. I just slowly, slowly, slowly fell out of the boat, head over heels, but I saved the beer. I swam back to the boat got in and we were pretty much at the take out. A quick Wendy's stop in town and we headed back to base and had a beer in the bar before hitting the sack. The boys had to leave in the morning so that was the end of their visit and a good time was had by all. So for all of you who haven't got out here, get going. They did send me some pictures but I haven't downloaded them yet but when I do I'll post them.