7/27/2013: Blackfoot R. MT, Russell Gates to Ninemile Prairie

With: David Bernard, Eric Hopley, Donna Grimes, Bill Grimes, David Vezzetti, Dorothy Vezzetti, Kim Buttleman, Jenny Thomas, Ann Olden, John Olden
 
I was expecting a boring day, but this stretch had a lot of fun Class III- action on it. The takeout was easily Class III+, but worth it for such a nice stretch of moderate whitewater.

That evening we drove into Missoula and Eric, David and I ate at a nice little Vietnamese restaurant on N. Higgins Ave. We stayed a third night at Ekstrom's.
 
1. A deer (across the river) observing us putting on the Blackfoot River
2. Blackfoot River
3. David Vezzetti and David Bernard, on the Blackfoot River
4. Eric Hopley, on the Blackfoot River
5. Eric Hopley, on the Blackfoot River
6. David Bernard, on the Blackfoot River
7. Blackfoot River
8. Eric Hopley and Jenny Thomas, on the Blackfoot River
9. Eric Hopley, on the Blackfoot River
10. Jenny Thomas, on the Blackfoot River
11. David Bernard, on the Blackfoot River
12. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
13. David Bernard and Jenny Thomas, Blackfoot River
14. Blackfoot River
15. Blackfoot River
16. Blackfoot River
17. David Bernard and Jenny Thomas, on the Blackfoot River
18. Jenny Thomas, on the Blackfoot River
19. Eric Hopley, on the Blackfoot River
20. Eric Hopley, on the Blackfoot River
21. Blackfoot River
22. Eric Hopley, at lunch on the Blackfoot River
23. Blackfoot River
24. Blackfoot River
25. Kim Buttleman & Jenny Thomas on the Blackfoot River
26. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
27. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
28. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
29. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
30. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
31. Blackfoot River
32. Blackfoot River
33. David Bernard and Eric Hopley on Blackfoot River
34. Eric Hopley on the Blackfoot River
35. David Bernard on the Blackfoot River
36. David Bernard and Eric Hopley on the Blackfoot River
37. David Bernard, Jenny Thomas, and Kim Buttleman on the Blackfoot River
38. Blackfoot River
39. Jenny Thomas; David & Dorothy Vezzetti and Eric Hopley in the distance, on the Blackfoot River
40. Jenny Thomas and David Vezzetti on the Blackfoot River
41. Eric Hopley on the Blackfoot River
42. Eric Hopley on the Blackfoot River
43. Jenny Thomas and David Vezzetti on the Blackfoot River
44. Jenny Thomas and David Vezzetti on the Blackfoot River
45. David Vezzetti on the Blackfoot River
46. David Vezzetti on the Blackfoot River
47. Jenny Thomas on the Blackfoot River