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August 08, 2005

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Floating actually means walking...and carrying...and getting really, really tired...


"Shitty" Beach
Originally uploaded by timsamoff.

A bunch of us (view a picture here) went on a camping/float excursion over the weekend. It was a lot of fun, but extremely exhausting. The campground wasn’t too bad, although the river-folk who were present weren’t too good (aside from being reacquainted with many fun expletives that I hadn’t heard in a while, I’ve never actually seen so many drunk people at eight o’clock in the morning in my life).

Fun times were had by all (and I mean all) until the wee hours of the morning. But, we did manage to have some of our own fun and get some sleep as well.

The water level of the was pretty low this year, so much of our canoeing was spent dragging the canoes rather than rowing them. It took us about five hours to make it down eight miles of river.

We took who did surprisingly well. She slept in the tent with us, thoroughly enjoyed the outdoors, and became quite the boat-dog by the end of the canoeing trip (she loved the attention from all of the other boaters).
Jill At the Elk
Thanks, Jill, for organizing this for all of us… We appreciate it! (Click the thumbnail to see Jill enjoying a peaceful morning down by the river.)

Read my friend Todd‘s account of our trip here.

Posted at 10:38 am

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Comments (7):
Eight miles in five hours?! So am I to understand that that section of the Elk is not exactly category 3 and 4 rapids? Ugh – sounds like boot camp :-)

tim () (URL) - August 08, 2005 at 2:54 pm

Ha ha ha! Yeah, like, maybe Category .05. :-D

I think our dog got out of it easy.

timsamoff () (URL) - August 08, 2005 at 2:59 pm

great.. thats an average of 1.6 miles an hour… you could have just swam! Great going buddy. haha!

dennisthemenace () - August 08, 2005 at 6:28 pm

Spent the weekend kayaking and I am sure that getting the boats in and out of the water, putting on equipment, etc. etc. etc. was a far greater part of the time than actually paddling. So, tell me again that this is fun.

Barry () (URL) - August 08, 2005 at 8:44 pm

Dennis ~ Actually, we couldn’t have swam… The water level was too low. We could have walked the entire thing, though.

Barry ~ Hehe… Yeah, but we’d probably do it again in an instant, right? :-D

timsamoff () (URL) - August 09, 2005 at 08:01 am

what kind of canoe trip is that!? argh! Blech. Fizz.

dennisthemenace () - August 09, 2005 at 10:39 am

Ha ha ha! You make me laugh out loud, Dennis! :-)

timsamoff () (URL) - August 09, 2005 at 10:49 am

  
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