A few months ago, my husband told me he wanted to go down the San Rafael River. The river is in a very sparsely populated area of Utah and for most of the year, calling it a river is a stretch. But in the spring, depending on the amount of runoff from the mountains, the water level rises dramatically and you can go in a canoe or kayak or raft. This year we've had a LOT of water in the form of both snow and rain so the river has been navigable for a while. Scott has been checking the water level on the government website for weeks but the real factor was the weather (not too cold) and the availability of our children to go with him. Finally this last weekend was a go.
I have to admit I was a little worried about the safety of the activity. But we looked at a couple of blog posts about it and it looked fairly benign, rated a Class 1+ so I stopped worrying, for the most part.
Saturday morning, Scott drove our big van with the canoes and three of our children down to Fuller's Bottom where they launched the canoes.
Saturday afternoon, I drove down in our other car with our youngest and picked up the van at Fuller's Bottom and then took it to the San Rafael Bridge where the boaters had arrived about 20 minutes before. It turned out to be a popular day to float the river. We met some people from our neighborhood in Orem there including one of Talmage's friends.
After loading the canoes, we went to a nearby campground, built a fire, roasted hot dogs and ate some dinner and then drove home. Scott said the scenery as they floated through the Little Grand Canyon was really spectacular but the float was just a little long. The roads in the Swell were a bumpy but I enjoyed the wildflowers and other scenery I saw. Someday I want to try the floating part myself but probably not for a few years.
I have to admit I was a little worried about the safety of the activity. But we looked at a couple of blog posts about it and it looked fairly benign, rated a Class 1+ so I stopped worrying, for the most part.
Saturday morning, Scott drove our big van with the canoes and three of our children down to Fuller's Bottom where they launched the canoes.
Saturday afternoon, I drove down in our other car with our youngest and picked up the van at Fuller's Bottom and then took it to the San Rafael Bridge where the boaters had arrived about 20 minutes before. It turned out to be a popular day to float the river. We met some people from our neighborhood in Orem there including one of Talmage's friends.
After loading the canoes, we went to a nearby campground, built a fire, roasted hot dogs and ate some dinner and then drove home. Scott said the scenery as they floated through the Little Grand Canyon was really spectacular but the float was just a little long. The roads in the Swell were a bumpy but I enjoyed the wildflowers and other scenery I saw. Someday I want to try the floating part myself but probably not for a few years.
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