7/30/2011: Salmon R., M. Fk., Boundary Creek to Cache Bar
With: Mick Schlotfeldt, Willy Young, Dan Bertko, Lois Carra, Chris Kelly, Nannette Laughrey, John "Gordo" Henderson, Bonnie Henderson, Chris Bell, Don Kinser, Judy Ranelli, Larry Rice, Fran Rulon-Miller, Brian Dollar, Bruce Bird, Theral Mikesell, Lizette Mikesell | ||
Ship Island camp to Cache Bar. We got off to an earlier start than usual and after we stopped to hike up to Parrott's grotto and successfully ran the last two difficult rapids of the Middle Fork -- Rubber and Hancock -- we hustled down the river because Bruce had to return his rented raft to Stanley before close of business. Hustling down the river got us badly spread out, and by the time I got to the biggest rapid of the entire trip, Kramer, on the mainstem of the Salmon, there were three of us bringing up the rear, with no-one else in sight. Chris Bell found an open-boat sneak down the left and I found an open-boat sneak down the right. And Dan managed to pin his canoe -- a full-broadside open-side upstream two-point pin -- at the bottom of the drop. Chris and I hiked back upstream, got some control ropes on the boat, and we managed to strongarm it off the pin before some of our friends showed up, by truck on the road above, to help. This was 15.2 miles on the last day, and after unrigging and loading up the vehicles (which our shuttle company, Blackadar Boating, had left for us at the take-out) it was about a 60-mile drive, along dirt roads for the first 40 miles, into the town of Salmon, where Judy, Bruce, Bryan, Chris B, and Don had hotel reservations. Willy, Mick and I found a reasonable campground right in town. We all ate a fine dinner in Bertram's Brew Pub, then the three of us went back to camp for our first shower in a week. |
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1. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
2. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
3. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
4. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
5. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
6. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
7. Mick and Dan on MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
8. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
9. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
10. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
11. Willy and Mick on MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
12. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
13. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
14. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
15. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
16. Parrott's cabin; MF Salmon | ||
17. Parrott's cabin; MF Salmon | ||
18. Parrott's cabin; MF Salmon | ||
19. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
20. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
21. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
22. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
23. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
24. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
25. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
26. Fan and Larry; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
27. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
28. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
29. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
30. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
31. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
32. MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
33. Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
34. Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
35. Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
36. Chris B in Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
37. Chris B in Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
38. Chris B in Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
39. Chris B in Rubber rapid; MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
40. Vultire beside the MF Salmon: Ship Island camp to Cache Bar takeout | ||
41. Cramer Creek rapid, Main Salmon above Cache Bar takeout | ||
42. Cramer Creek rapid, Main Salmon above Cache Bar takeout | ||
43. Cache Bar takeout | ||
44. Mouth of the MF Salmon from the Cache Bar takeout road | ||
45. Bighorn Sheep beside the Cache Bar takeout road | ||
46. Bighorn Sheep beside the Cache Bar takeout road | ||