cowboys and probably indians too!

I'm driving down the road, went to make an ordinary stop at the intersection and just like that my brake peddle sunk to the floor. I was able to make a sketchy right turn downshifting to saftey. I found a nice spot by the park and I packed up a bag and my boat and got a ride to Matts house. I was able to sleep on the couch there for a night or two and then his buddys came up from Colorado and the 6 of us set off to Cody on an adventure.

We got in about sunset and had a relativly quick run on the Shosone. Nice fun ledgy 2-4 ft drops above the power plant and a few super fun rappids below it. A little further than halfway, half the group took out as darkness set upon the canyon, and the other half of us raced on to the take out encountering acouple super fun read and run tight creeky drops half in the dark. We camped and ran Crandal Creek the following morning. Super fun run. Manky mank fest for sure. Tight drops, low volume, and a handful of really fun read and run drops. Managed to get a boat un-pinned from the middle of the river twice, a paddle recovery in the middle of a bony drop, and one of the crew swam through a sieve. Afterwards we loaded up both trucks with the 8 boats and made the journey back through Yellowstone and got back to town a little after dark. Both stretches of river were amazingly beautiful though, and the tight box canyons are a welcomed change from the Snake daily.

I bummed around Stillson boat launch for a day swimming and fishing and Kevin and I fixed the truck up right and now I am back in buisness. Tried my luck camping there again last night and Sherriff ran me out at 4:20 this morning with his flashlight in my eyes. I moved and got to another camp site a little while later and I went to sleep hearing somone bang a drum off in the distance. A little eery going to sleep to. Surfed Burrito and Enchilada today. I keep hearing how good Burrito gets and everyone was surfing that, but I had more fun on Enchilada immediatly to river left. It's like a little whitewater park though being able to go back and forth from them all.