over the river and through the woods

We woke up this morning from our warm, dry, comfortable hotel beds, hung out longer than we should have, watched some TV, ate some bagels with cream cheese and then hit the road. On a tip from the raft shop, we found a nice play wave right off of the highway just out of town. It is a nice wave, good size pile with a nice shoulder, a bit easy to get flushed if your not paying attention, but loads of fun. After we each had our fill, we packed up. Drove a few miles down the street and found the put in for a nice stretch of water on the Snake. We unloaded the boats, all the gear, and realized Scott left his waterproof camera on the hood of the car way back at the wave. He speeds off down the road and leaves me and all the gear in his dust. I set some stuff out to dry, rolled my boat upside down for a bed, grabbed my life jacket for a pillow, layed down and took a nap. A few minutes later I awake to Scott's shouts of joy speeding down the road coming towards me. I guess what happened was, 6 miles after the wave, going 65mph the camera slid off of the hood of the car, onto the side of the road. After 45 minutes worth of close calls somehow the camera found its way just off of the pavement in a patch of grass and somehow, driving down the road at 65, Scott managed to spot the little camera , busted a U and went to check it out. After closer inspection, despite a couple scratches to the case, everything is completely fine. So anyway, we unload the rest of the gear, Scott drives the car down to the take out to run shuttle, and I lay back down to enjoy the morning sunshine on my skin. Eventually we get on the river, have a nice little run through some big wave trains and a couple play spots. Packed up the car once again, and continued on our way.

We made it to Steamboat, settled into Scotts friends mountain house. The place is sick. We went for a walk, did some time in the pool, now we are sitting in super comfy couches watching TV. We went and saw the C hole, and it looks awsome. Tommarrow is going to be a busy day, but the plan is to go skate some hills early, maybe run this little creek, go hit the 4 playspots downtown and then either run another creek or just hit the road. Next stop on the list is back in Denver.