Big Portage...

Happy Fathers Day!

We're in Nebraska!

Seamus and I had a rough day on Tuesday. We were tree kayaking all day. Tree kayaking is similar to tree skiing in that one must avoid the trees but with skiing you can stop almost anytime... Kayaking in trees only happens in flooded rivers (like the Cache la Poudre) and our long touring kayaks are not suited to the quick turns needed to navigate such conditions. So after a long and scary day of swimming in 33 degree snowmelt, rescuing kayaks, and saving each other, we got a motel in Greeley and ordered a pizza...

We wanted to save the adventure but both of us were unwilling to get back into the Poudre. We consulted an expert and decided to do a vehicle aided portage around the sketchy flooded parts of the river. We decided we'd like to go kayaking again some day so I called about renting a car and discovered that renting a car in Greeley one way to North Platte or Grand Island would be costly.... But one way between airports is cheap so we opted to portage to Omaha in a black Hyundai. My brother and his wife and their wolf puppy rescued us in Greeley, drove us to DIA and now we're in Bellevue, Nebraska... The home of Strategic Air Command at Offat Air Force Bas and Our Lady of the Runways at St Mary's Catholic Church. 

Tomorrow we start down the river again, looks very promising.