River Rats be ridiculous....5:45 am - Alarm goes off. I think about how much I hate that stupid ringtone. I feel muscles, and wonder about the weather. Brush teeth.
6:00 am - Coffee begins brew. Begin Examining amount of sand I brought home in shoes from days previous, and are they dry yet? Load gear from clothesline into gear bag, or simply start throwing shit into back of car. Thinking of coffee.
6:15 am - Meander towards kitchen. Refill water bottles. Eat 1/2 gallon of yogurt to motivate my system and discourage fullday turtleheading during big water descents.
6:35 am - Coffee meets my lips. Instantaneous reaction leads me towards bathroom.
6:45 am - Commute to Santa Fe, jamming in the cool morning breeze, completely blinded by the morning sun.
7:00 am - Rigging the trailer for the Box Trip, drinking coffee, discussing yesterdays photos.
9:00 am - Picking up guests at the Visitors Center in Pilar after a 1 hour drive. Turning down the dude with the 5 stints and walker, the extremely overweight person that could only help themselves to another sandwich and the dad with the tw0 5 year old kids.....youre not coming today....sorry.
10:00 am - Arrival at the Dunn Bridge put-in. Rigging boats and equipping people.
10:45 am - On the Class IV water and loving it.
3:30 pm - Dropping into Sunset Hole sideways, high siding, possibly flipping, getting chundered, laughing, derigging....
4:00 pm - Driving home, tired, exhausted, dreaming of the beer that wont be in your hand for at least an hour.
5:00 pm - Beer in hand, derig, bullshit, find shade.
6:00 pm - On way home. Wanted a beer but fell asleep on the kitchen counter before beverage aquired. Wake up in clothes, so thirsty for water consider drinking out of toilet due to mass quantities in sight. Asleep for good.
4 comments:
You must be gaining weight from drinking beer. I didn't know one person could outweigh six lazy tourists and keep the boat from flipping. You can really see the Oh Shit! look on your face as you drop into the hole.
I have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how you stay in that boat! I don't think this is the run for me - take me on a float trip! Of course you are exhausted - your daily countdown is funny and informative - and after 12 hour days again and again of sheer extreme output, you must have muscles made of steel! Actually looks like a lot of fun! Love, The Mom
muscles of butter....which turns out to be handy if I need to get into any small doors
Those puffy homoes don't need PFD's at least.
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