Wednesday, May 25, 2011

River Trip - View Progress

I leave on Friday 5/27 for 9 days.  We are traveling from Highway 12 to Lake Powell.  You can view our progress from the link below:

Spot Adventures

Sunday, May 8, 2011

River Update - A Great Week to Run

 If you have been wondering - waiting - or holding off over the last few years, Now is the time to be running the Escalante River.


Look at the progression over the last few days.  If you are on the river this week I would love to hear from you!

A storm is on the way into the area with temperatures dropping.  It will be curious to watch the flows over the next 48 hours  to see what happens.

I am in the middle of my own trip preparations for this year and have lots of additional information coming.  In the mean time, a few years ago I did a there-and-back in Escalante with my GF and our younger kids.  To get everything there we enlisted the help of her teenage son and friends.

With tight jeans and stocking caps they certainly seemed out of place in the desert sun, I had recently read a trip report of a group utilizing Pack Lamas on a guided trip.  While traveling we labeled the teenagers - who were carrying a bulky load, the PACK EMO's.


My buddy Marcus from ADailyDoodle.com enjoyed the story -and at my request drafted this quality piece on his site.  Come to find out Emo is a deprecated term to the guys and they prefer some other term, not currently in need of their services, I forget.