7/11/2010: Rio Chama, Chavez Canon access to Big Eddy access
| With: David Bernard, Mick Schlotfeldt, Donna Grimes, Bill Grimes, Dorothy Vezzetti, David Vezzetti, Marilyn Peery, Cliff Peery, Jim Barton, Lee Belknap, Kathy Cusick, Christy Long, Julie Luck, Dick Swomley, Ken Anderson, Billy Welborn | ||
| In the morning we (Mick and I from North Carolina and David from Virginia) drove to the Rio Chama put-in and met up with trip organizer Donna Grimes and others of her Houston Canoe Club, David and Dorothy from Georgia, Lee from North Carolina, and Dick from Pennsylvania. The Rio Chama was an easy Class II stream that flows, we are told, strong and cool all summer long thanks to releases from el Vado reservoir. After boating we drove to the Orilla Verde National Recreation Area along the Rio Grande, where Donna had reserved the group campsite at the Taos Junction campground. This was a lovely semi-desert campground where even the individual sites had adobe shelters. The group-site shelter was large enough that Mick pitched his bivy-cot right inside. We cooked dinner in camp again. |
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| 1. Rio Chama, as seen from camp | ||
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| 2. Camp flora | ||
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| 3. Camp flora | ||
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| 4. Camp flora | ||
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| 5. Camp flora | ||
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| 6. Breakfast beside Rio Chama | ||
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| 7. View from the shuttle road | ||
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| 8. Rio Chama from the shuttle road | ||
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| 9. View from the shuttle road | ||
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| 10. The Rio Chama put-in | ||
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| 11. The Rio Chama put-in, from across the river | ||
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| 12. Mick on Rio Chama | ||
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| 13. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 14. Richard and David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 15. Mick on Rio Chama | ||
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| 16. Mick, Donna, and Molly on Rio Chama | ||
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| 17. David and Richard on Rio Chama | ||
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| 18. Rio Chama | ||
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| 19. Rio Chama | ||
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| 20. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 21. Rio Chama | ||
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| 22. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 23. Dorothy on Rio Chama | ||
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| 24. Richard and David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 25. Mick on Rio Chama | ||
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| 26. Rio Chama | ||
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| 27. Rio Chama | ||
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| 28. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 29. Richard on Rio Chama | ||
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| 30. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 31. Richard and David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 32. Richard on Rio Chama | ||
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| 33. David and Mick on Rio Chama | ||
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| 34. Richard on Rio Chama | ||
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| 35. Rio Chama | ||
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| 36. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 37. David Vezzetti (Georgia Dave) and David Bernard (Virginia Dave) on Rio Chama | ||
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| 38. Lee Belknap on Rio Chama | ||
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| 39. USGS gauge on Rio Chama | ||
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| 40. Forest Service cable car over Rio Chama | ||
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| 41. Previous night's camp, as seen from Rio Chama | ||
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| 42. David on Rio Chama | ||
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| 43. US-285 in New Mexico | ||
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| 44. US-285 in New Mexico | ||
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| 45. Rio Grande, seen from from the switchback road down the west side of the canyon | ||
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| 46. Group site of the Taos Junction BLM CG, Orilla Verde National Recreation Area, beside the Rio Grande | ||
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| 47. Taos Junction Bridge over the Rio Grande; public boat access across the river | ||
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