Friday, October 14, 2016

Green River Raft trip post 2, Desolation Canyon & Gray canyon (9 days, 9/24-10/2, ~3500 cfs)

Weather reports for the nearest towns, Price and Vernal, had led us to think that the nighttime temperatures would be in the 40's so we brought a bunch of cold weather clothes (plus, you can never tell this time of year - it could have rained the whole time). But the temperatures during the day tagged the 80's and at night stayed in the 50's so it was quite comfortable.

But man there was a lot of dew on the outside of the rainflies and tons of condensation on the inside. Them's the breaks. Ventilation in a tent doesn't mean a thing when the humidity is 100% and it's colder than the dew point. If only every customer was as understanding as I am about that ;)

I'll just let the flow of the trip wash over you in pictures...
mornings usually looked very much like this
O finds two chairs provide service adequate to his needs
flying buttress erosion pattern - we saw this everywhere on this trip
just behind the waterfront's tangle of Tamrisk and Willow, this hill shows clear signs of heavy animal grazing; the criss-crossing pattern is unmistakable. I once saw an area in Nepal with so much use that this pattern had evolved into full scale moguls like you see on ski slopes

lunch on a big sandbar

where the river slows, it drops at the finest sediment as a slippery and sticky mud

it occurs to me that next time I should just take an actual video of the scenery while spinning


Rock Canyon Camp
my sweetie
out for a walk up the canyon
it's an impressive canyon opening

crazy-narrow fin

the main petroglyph panel at the foot of the canyon's entry cliffs
bighorned sheep. always

upside down = dead


funny little glyph around the corner

hmmm
up the wash

what you get when mud cracks, the cracks get filled with a little different mud, and then turned to stone
no grazing was apparent in the upper canyon
bingo!
after dinner, R & I went searching for another petroglyph panel. failure. all I found  was this lousy circle/spot and a pathetic rendering of a horse

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