Cali Boating

From Vegas we headed 8 hours north on a brutal drive towards Reno. We took the scenic route through Death Valley and then up the eastern side of the Sierra's. We departed with Kate in Reno and she took off to LA and eventually onto NYC while the rest of us headed towards Sacramento to meet up with Chris Korbulic who had driven my truck down from Oregon to start the summer road trip in California...and so it began.
With Jono still in tow since work wasn't too eager to have him back yet, the three of us headed north to the Cal Salmon for a river festival over the weekend.

Home for the next 6 months


This little guy came to investigate


We started off with a bit of creeking warm up on the South Fork of the Salmon. What a change from Oregon - notice the shadow under the boat - Finally the sun was out!


We moved onto the Cal Salmon Proper to watch the "down river race". More people watched than competed but it was still good fun!


The rafters provided a good majority of the entertainment.


And carnage was definitely to be had! As well as plumbers cracks.


The trio styling the drops of the salmon...

We spent 4 or 5 days in the area and did some mtn biking and some 1st D scouting and Korbulic did some waterfall running and we checked out some low water mank creeking and then we were done with northern Cal and it was time to hit up the Sierras so off to th feather drainage we went.