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Photos by Roger Zellmer and Mollie - Green River Kayak trip June 2003 -
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We started at Green River mile marker 120. Our first stop was at mile marker 115.5 Crystal Geyser. |
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The minerals looked slippery but they in fact where firm and the gritty texture made walking on it easy. |
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This is my new 14' inflatable canoe which mother bought me. Its great for white water up to class V and fine for flat water with some velocity. |
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The colors and designs were very pretty. This geyser was caused by a oil company drilled test hole looking for oil or natural gas. |
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The other red boat is a 10' Oldtown Loon Kayak. It was much faster and easy to paddle, but got uncomfortable during the course of a long day. |
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My niece Mollie near the outlet. Its shoots off twice a day quite high into the air. We missed the eruption. |
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The water is cool but is loaded with minerals. |
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Mollie stopping for a rest on a pretty sand bar. |
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Had about 150# of gear in the boat. The capacity is 840#. One day we got the weight unbalanced and it caused the boat to spin when in eddies or turbulance. |
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We averaged about 3.5 mph. According to my gps the river velocity varied between 2 and 5.5 mph. My original planned estimate was to average 5 mph. In lieu of the slower speed we had stay on the water longer each day and reduce the hikes we had plan to take. |
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The river banks and tributaries are infested with Tamarisk, a nasty imported tree which harbors mosquitoes and drinks up to 300 gallons of water per day. It is estimated that 1/3rd of our water is drunk by these nasty trees. There is an ongoing debate on how to get rid of these trees. Best bet so far is a Beetle which will eat them, but what other damage would the beetle do? |
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The 2nd night camping on a sandbar. Mollie could put her tent up allot faster than I. |
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My new Sierra Designs tent was nice and roomy, light weight, and not too hard to put up. The 3rd night was very dusty and blew fine grit every where causing my tent zippers to be sticky. |
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Some campers before us were quite talented at creating sand art. |
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The turtle was really cool. |
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The detail of their work was great with moats and bridges. |
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Labyrinth Canyon was really beautiful. Photos can't really do it justice. |
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Another sandbar island where we stopped to rest and have snacks on the 3rd day out. |
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This is a view looking down into Mineral Bottom Canyon our take out spot. The ride was extremely steep and curvy. Our shuttle driver really made me nervous as he talked constantly looking at us instead of the road. He also found pleasure in taking the vehicle right out to the edge when negotiating the turns. |