Quick post to keep you people amused. We had a great vacation, a week at a dude ranch and then two county highpoints on the way to two days of rafting on the Trinity river. While I admit that I was at the ranch and that I did ride four different rides (about 8 hours of riding and one very sore bottom), somehow no-one took photos of me on a horse. Darn
The highpoints were fun but forested, so no great views. The Butte County highpoint did require hiking on the PCT to get there. This is cool since it'll be 5 - 8 years before we reach that point on our continuous PCT hike. The photo comparisons between then and now will no doubt be very interesting.
So, rafting was great. Here's a few photos:
Madeleine was a complete berserker. She took every gush of water as a personal affront, yipping, barking and snapping at each until she'd finally throw herself out of the boat at some random wave:
The part of the Trinity we ran has only one class three rapid (the rest is easier). "Hell Hole" is pretty fun. In this shot you can see that dog attacking the waves:
Here the dog is way up in the air (she landed back in the raft):
We did some cliff jumping:
And, to our immense surprise, even Tricia went for it:
We were back to work and the usual routine this last week. Tomorrow we go racing a sailboat on the bay (your bay, the one over there). Then work next week for me and... Katie starts high school Wednesday (yes, we really are that old).
