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Only a 4 person / 3 boat trip this year

On the water at 12:01pm. The other group is doing a 5 day camping trip

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Grave Creek Bridge

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Looking up Grave Creek

Looking down at Grave Creek Rapid

The Rules...

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Canada geese

Approaching Rainie Falls

Ray squirts thru the right-channel

Looking back at main falls

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Taking pics while holding onto a bush isn't working well...

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Al and Linda slide thru as well

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Lunch stop at Whiskey Creek

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A reminder that not all river trips go as planned

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Lower Black Bar Falls is only a wave at the higher water levels

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Black Bar Lodge's new customer centric sign

Evening at Black Bar. No deer this year

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10:14am departure from Black after Ray went swimming while loading his raft and cut up his knee

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Horseshoe Bend camp

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Rest stop at Battle Bar

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China Bar

Linda redoes Ray's bandages at lunch stop

Looking up Mule Creek

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Into Mule Creek Canyon

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Flying thru the tight areas...

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Above Blossom Bar

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Al and Linda below Paradise Creek

After unloading at Paradise we moved our boats upstream knowing that there will be lots of boats tomorrow during our layover day

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Mondo-calorie dinner dessert

Starting the morning hike - ultimate frisbee contraption

Waiting for Ray at level 1 (white dot near windsock :)

Still waiting....

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Madrone

View from Deak's Peak

"Verification" photo

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Returned 'camera' chair to inverted position to avoid the winds blowing it over

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Using trees for leverage on the way down

Ray pushed too hard on one of them. Glad I wasn't in front

Still no desire to take the extra hike...

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Lunch at Paradise Creek

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The bird was parked almost as long as I was

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Deak's from lodge

Morning from Garden House deck

This year was Laurel and Willow (2nd floor). Juniper 1st floor

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Departing Paradise at 10:22AM

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Jackson Creek

Steps to the General's Cabin

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Tourists...

and Paradise's boat returns

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Made it thru Clay Hill Still w/o winds

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Getting close to the end

Foster Bar takeout 12:46pm

This year's T-shirt from Galice Resort

USGS Flow at Grants Pass 05/09/2012 12:00 PDT 4,480 CFS 3.53' 12.4 DegC (54F)

USGS Flow at Agness 05/09/2012 12:00 PDT 6,680 CFS 5.38' 14.7 DegC (58F)