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. |
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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 | ||