In the morning Hot Head and his family were the last ones to break camp and get on the rafts. This would become a recurring event. Every day we would all sit on the rafts waiting for them. I never could figure out what they were doing that made them late. We started down the [...]
Our first landmark is Ten Mile Rock, a huge boulder that normally stands way out above the water. But with the floodwater we could only see its top. Winger pulls our boat up to the rock and tells Dan, a community college professor who is the unofficial leader of the Californians, to jump onto it [...]
Two 30-foot J-rig rafts would be carrying our group down the Colorado River. Along with the two of us Tribune-folk were twenty-six paying customers from Southern California, five river guides, a cameraman and reporter from a TV station, and a writer from the Park City newspaper who had quit his job six days ago but [...]
