The Big slide on the South Merced, Day 1.

A different perspective of the Big slide. EG nailing it.

With a nasty boxed in hole and then portages down the next couple of horizon lines we decided to call it a day and make camp. Nothing puts us boaters to sleep better than the sound of the river churning over rocks and after spending a summer sleeping near whitewater its going to be hard sleeping away from a river, not to mention not sleeping on the ground or sleeping without a pillow.

Evan charging down of the more intimidating but friendly sections. We had perfect flows around 900 cfs. None of us knew the lines and jono was the only one who had been on the river before and that was in 2005 so his foggy memory left us scouting and probing our way down. Evan came back with a crew a few days later and did the entire 2 day section in only 5 hours - kids got some incredible memory for whitewater and can remember random rapids on random turns on random rivers from years before.

Chris K eating up a 20 footer

In and out of the toilet bowl - this was one of the last big drops of the run and treated us all well, more of a "drop in and rudder" kind of drop than anything else.

Getting my awkward sideways surf on in this little baby. Obviously i wasn't the one taking the pictures and proper photo credit needs to go to Jono for this and many of the other shots you're seeing.

What do you do when you get off the river after hours of paddling out? You eat, anything, and if that happens to be a tub of peanut butter, well, consider yourself stoked...The Chris' fight over some dipping time in the bucket O PB

Evan tried to get the peanut butter by intimidating us with his huge guns

The effect was obviously unsuccessful. Lizzy has seen guns plenty bigger than that!

East side of the Sierra's

This is LeRoy. He watches our truck while we're on the river. He likes to eat bugs and hates the rain.