7/18/2010: Arkansas R., Stone Bridge access to F Street, Salida

With: David Bernard, Mick Schlotfeldt, Donna Grimes, Bill Grimes, Dorothy Vezzetti, David Vezzetti, Marilyn Peery, Cliff Peery, David Jacobs
 
This was probably the least interesting river day of our entire trip. There is no whitewater except the boat-ladder around an eight-foot low-head dam about 3/4 of the way through the trip, which gave us three 2'-3' drops spaced twenty yards apart. The scenery was good above the dam but the only place to stop for lunch without trespassing on private land was a public access point off US-285 about halfway. Downstream from the dam the scenery was ugly defunct-industrial until it became Salida-urban.

Once again we ate at "The Boathouse", then Mick and I hustled off to meet David at the Mt. Princeton trailhead. We showed up about five minutes late for our 5:00 PM rendezvous, but David had only been waiting for minutes.

David's walk had gone well. He had made it to the tree line easily on Saturday, and in the moring left his pack there, where he had camped, for the steeper climb to the summit on Sunday morning.
1. Dorothy and David Vezzetti putting on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
2. Putting on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
3. Marilyn Peery, Dorothy and David Vezzetti, on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
4. David Vezzetti on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
5. Dorothy Vezzetti, Marilyn Peery, and Mick Schlotfeldt on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
6. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
7. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
8. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
9. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
10. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
11. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
12. Dorothy Vezzetti on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
13. Dorothy Vezzetti on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
14. Cliff Peery on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
15. Marilyn Peery on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
16. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
17. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
18. Marilyn Peery on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
19. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
20. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
21. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
22. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
23. Marilyn Peery and "Georgia" Dave Vezzetti on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
24. Mick Schlotfeldt on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
25. Cliff Peery on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
26. Mick Schlotfeldt on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
27. Something beside the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
28. Horses beside the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
29. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
30. David Vezzetti on the "boat ladder" around the dam on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
31. Dorothy Vezzetti and Marilyn Peery below the "boat ladder" around the dam on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
32. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
33. Rain on the Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
34. Arkansas River, Stone Bridge to Salida
35. Driving to the Mt. Princeton trailhead to pick up "Virginia" Dave Bernard
36. Driving to the Mt. Princeton trailhead to pick up "Virginia" Dave Bernard