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April 13, 2005

Paddling in the Southwest

I went out last week to visit my brother and his family in New Mexico and then go out paddling with my brother and a friend of his in one-person raft/kayaks for five days. We had incredible weather and the river was gorgeous and so isolated that we did not see a single other person from the moment we put in on Monday till we took the boats out of the water Friday night. We carried coolers, tents, sleeping bags, etc... for the week. Overall, I'm not sure what my reaction is to the adventure. The scenery was beautiful and some parts of the trip were really fun but parts were also flat out dangerous and a ton of backbreaking work at times to drag the boats around particularly dangerous strainers and overly shallow parts of the river which we couldn't float past. My natural schedule when out camping was also a bit incompatible with my brother's which caused me some annoyance as I sat around waiting for him to get moving in the mornings. I really enjoyed the kayaking but would need somewhere a bit safer to go again. Still, I was really happy with how well I held up physically to the whole trip, only crashing after we finally got back (more than a day after we had planned and just in time to make my flight home) late Friday night.

Unfortunately, we took almost no photos and the few we did take aren't developed yet. I avoided taking my camera due to the very real chance of it getting dunked in the water (as I did like 6 times or so) and lost or destroyed.

Posted by aarondf at April 13, 2005 05:08 PM

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