Another day on the water.

Well, as you may or may not know I am a river guide during the summer time I am based out of beautiful Moab, UT. Anyways, I was sent out on a Westwater trip today orginally to be a solo trip with myself and 5 passengers just for the day. A father and his twos sons out of the D.C. area, and a couple out of Iowa. I often wonder why they would come all the way out to little old Utah. Infact it is one of the first questions I will ask just to see where people are coming from. I get the best answer after I get off a trip such as the one that I had today. A few of my coworkers had the day of and we had plenty of room on our launch so the loaded on a little paddle boat and a kayak for my good friend Brian and away we went. Now it is about a 99% chance that something will happen and make the trip hard or interesting wether something is for gotten or and accident in the rapids (which dosen't happen that often) anyways any number of things can go wrong. This trip though was destine to be flawless. An easy rig, no problems at the ramp, good passengers. We put on the water with myself on the row boat with 3 passengers and all the gear. A good friend Eric guiding the paddle boat with two other guides and to passengers and Brian in his kayak. We cruised down just above the rapids and had some lunch. Then we dropped into the rapids. I had never seen it at this level so I was a little nervous, deffinetly had the nervous pee. Well we greased it! for those that may not not the river lingo this means we had and amazing ride. I hit all of my lines prefect with some huge hits that got the D.C. folks jaws to drop. The paddle had the best run throught that section I had ever seen a paddle boat have. Brian was showing of his mad skills in his kayak and taking on the big hits without flinching. This is the kind of trip that you try for all summer. I have been luck and had many trips of this nature this summer. This is one of many reasons why people venture out to little old Utah. The most amazing part is that the pay and trust me to take these people in to this beautifully desolate desert in to these potentially life threatening situations when I would do it for free.