Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Green River Raft trip post 8, Desolation Canyon & Gray canyon (9 days, 9/24-10/2, ~3500 cfs)

A full day of sights made longer by a dearth of good campsites at the end.


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a very nice petroglyph panel on a boulder

but it looked like it had fallen over (note the sheep mid-left)



closeup

another boulder


lovely but it's getting late

quite a few rapids and riffles gave us nice speed for the day

the Price River was running. it's green color only slowly mixed with the pink from the Green River



in the end, we camped on a sandbar. because of the possibility of large increased in the Green River's height, a sandbar is not our preferred area. but, the weather was moving out and...


gorgeous clouds


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