Salmon Middle Fork

Over Easter Weekend Jeff, Grandpa Horrocks, Uncle Scott, Mark Holt, Jared Nathan Lori Jason Lee, and I went with a group of people to raft the middle fork. Jeff's family has been doing this trip for years, so Jeff knows ever nook and cranny of that river and has a story worth listening to for every rapid. It was a really good time.
We flew into the middle fork of the Salmon river on a little plane. By the time Jeff and I went it was snowing and visibility was pour, but here are some pictures from the earlier flights where they could see how beautiful that country is.


It was very relaxing. . .and we saw a ton of animals. I will spare you all the photos Jeff took of them. There were pictures of everything from wolf prints to eagles to elk on my camera when we got home. Mark and I challenged Jeff to an animal spotting competition while rafting and I think we won.
This is Grandpa and I all geared up. The trip was relitively warm and we only got snowed on for a short bit the first night. But since Grandpa and I are both cold blooded we barely stayed warm with these huge thick snow suits Jeff got us. We were twins, but in this picture I have waders on over the top of the suit.

4 hooligans

Mark rowed most of the time...I am indeed in this picture.

The funniest part of the whole trip was Jeff's brother Jared. I could not look at him without laughing. He made his own GoPro. Now ladies who don't know what a GoPro is please allow me to enlighten you. It is a camera that mounts to anything and allows men to take footage while they do boy stuff. It is the gift you never get your husband, and if by chance he buys one for himself, well then, it is the gift you break when he isn't looking.There are two reasons for this. And do not underestimate the seriousness of these reasons. 1. Your husband will do more stupid daring ridiculous stuff than he was already doing. Now he has a camera strapped to his bike/helmet/motorcycle/raft/car he thinks first of the footage and last about if it is rational to try to set a new cliff jumping record. 2. You get stuck watching hours of footage of him doing these activities. So not only do you not like riding dirt bikes, hence you didn't go, but now you have to watch hours of footage of the event.
All that aside. Take a look at Jared! Please make note of the tripod legs sticking out the bottom of the duct tape. The frugality of Jeff's parents is clearly getting the better of Jared.

Grandpa carried his own weight and rowed.

It was a great time. A really great time.