Day two of the trip began with french toast and bacon and then a very slow packing up of the camp. Being the first morning on the river and all, we took our sweet time, which landed us around noon before we hit the water. The first rapid of the morning was The Chutes (MP8). This rapid is actually a series of a few (upper, middle, and lower).

Josh and Colin in the lower Chutes

Dan about to catch the wave in middle chutes

Jason, Tim, and Vern on lower Chutes

Below The Chutes is Powerhouse Rapids (MP11.2). This series starts with a ferry through a shallow gravel bar and middle run until you reach the powerhouse (old wooden building river right) and then run center moving left to avoid the cliff wall below. There are also some rocks/ holes below depending on the flow.

Looking down into Lower Powerhouse below the structure.

Josh and Colin in Powerhouse.

Mike in Powerhouse

Jason, Tim and Vern approaching the wall on the right.

Jason mid-powerhouse

Below Powerhouse rapids things got a bit tense in the group. We knew we were approaching the Lake Creek Rapids. This rapid had changed in the Lake Creek blowout and had rumored wood in the rapid, and a huge alluvial gravel bar that had changed the entire flow of the river. We eddied out behind Fire Island (MP13.8) to debrief the pictures and talk about Lake Creek before getting there. As we floated the miles past fire island, and kept going past where the GPS said Lake Creek should have been, tensions were running higher and higher. In the end, we didn't run lake creek, because the REAL Lake Creek wasn't until the next day (see Day 3 for full description).

Somewhere around Lake Creek Fakie.

We passed down through Greyhound Camp (MP15.9) which had an amazing surf wave river left. Would be a great spot for a trip with lots of kayakers. We cruised down from there to the Big Snag Campsite (MP19.1) which had a great big eddy in front of it, and lots of fish to be caught.

Butterflies on the cobble beach at Big Snag.

The cobble beach at Big Snag.

Body rock art with Liz.

Great mexican bar dinner.

Josh catching his first fish of the trip.

Groover with a view.

The Big Snag.

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