We started the trip on a
cool and damp afternoon at the romantically-named
Potash Dock (there's a big potash mine near here).
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Fran and Rick just down-river from Potash Dock.
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Rick in the front of the canoe.
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Martin and Alex at the first night's camp. You can see that we
brought only the bare neccesities.
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Fran hard at work at the first
night's camp.
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A tousle-haired Rick and Alex after the first night's camp.
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Fran and Rick setting out from
camp on the second day.
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Alex relaxing in front of the canoe. The formation in the
background is called Dead Horse Point.
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Lunch stop on the second day,
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Martin and Alex in their canoe on the second afternoon.
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Rick and Martin busy setting up the second night's camp. |
Martin at the second night's camp. If you look closely you'll
find a clue to the title of this page. |
Alex and Fran on a sunny morning after the second night's camp.
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On the third day we stopped for lunch near the ruins of some Anasazi
cliff-dwellings.
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A rather miserable Alex at the third night's camp (it rained a bit that
afternoon).
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Rick brushing his teeth after the fourth and final night's
camp. This was near the confluence of the Colorado River and the
Green River.
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We stopped at the confluence because there are big rapids beyond
here. There are no roads to this point; instead, an outfitter
came downstream and took us back upstream by a motor
boat.
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Rick, Alex and Fran back at Potash Dock a few hours later, with the
outfitter's motor boat behind them.
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The next day we went sight-seeing in Canyonlands National Park.
Here's Fran at Grand View Point. The Colorado River is out of
sight at the bottom of one of the canyons in the far distance.
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A view of the Green River in Canyonlands National Park. Like the
Colorado, the Green also has a long stretch of flat water. Maybe
we'll be back here for our next trip.
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