Deschutes River Trip

Trip Start Mar 27, 2007
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Trip End Jun 10, 2007


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Sunday, April 1, 2007

Began my journey by flying south (overnight) to Bend, OR (my second home).  I met up with my buddies Gabe and Amy and we spent a few days getting ready and making up our minds on where exactly we were going to go on our multiday rafting trip.  Our original plan was for the Owyhee River... which was apparently running so low we would be carrying the raft. Then we decided to do the Rogue River... but the pass to get to it was getting a blizzard and with a trailer, it didn't sound like a good idea.  So we chose the Deschutes. 

We drove a few hours to Maupin and then down stream to a put-in. We camped at the put-in on Tuesday night and began our rafting journey the next morning (or rather, afternoon... we like to get our rest). The days were semi warm- but the river was cold. Amy and I were in the back and the raft holds a little water back there so most of the day, our feet were either on the side of the raft or completely numb from the water. We made Gabe do most of the work with his oars.

Camped for 3 nights along the river- gorgeous scenary, etc etc. (I'm in the mood for descriptions, right?) Canyons, old cars, railroad, herrons, raccoons, a few deer, ospreys, eagles, hawks, etc etc and the sky was blue. I think the photos do a better job than I want to do at the moment. So I'll get right on that.
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