River Day 01/25/10

Only 3 of us were able to make it to the river this week: Jay, Ted and Mark.

As you can tell from these pictures, the river level is still way up and probably came up another 4 feet or so while we were there. The next morning (Tuesday) was when the real flooding occurred; the water was just under the floor of the camp and the metal building one of these pictures was taken from was in all probability destroyed.




It was snowing in Beckley at the top of the mountain, but at river level we only had rain. We also saw a guy get hit by a vehicle, but we won't list any details here so no one has to testify. Gotta love domestics.














Oh, and for the record, we still had the best fire on the river.

Rivertarian Logo

This was designed by Trish. Should look good on t-shirts:

River Day 01/18/2010

This was the first Monday we've seen the ground since before Christmas. The temp's were in the 40's during daylight hours and all of the snow that's been around since Dec. 18 has melted off.
Of course all the runoff has caused the river to rise, so the little patch of ground you can see in the picture to the left was about all there was!

It made it a little harder to find wood also, but as you can see in the next picture, that didn't stop us from having the best fire on the river! I guess all those pyro lessons paid off.





(Is it just me, or does it look like Jay has
smoke coming out of both ears in this
picture?)

Random pics of the river (just to get started!)