[BOATERS] Trip Report

[Erik Strahler]

So, Chris was noble, and led a trip to the Paint and Menominee.

I was selfish.  I headed south.  11 hours to Elkhorn City, KY.  And why,
you ask?  For the first week of fall releases on the Russell Fork.  What
a great weekend!

Let's see what was so great:

-11 hour drive!  this is hardly anything.  We got 5 hours of sleep
Saturday morning, AND I was home before midnight on Sunday.

-Alice Cooper!  A couple working at the local newspaper gave us free
tickets to a concert 20 minutes from our campsite.  Alice Cooper for
free?  Yes Please.  The show was great, and as full of cheese as you
could wish for.

-The River!  What a phemonenal run.  Certainly deservedly one of the
classics.  It's just less than 4 miles long, has a mile or so of warm up
and cool down on either end (class II-IV), and still packs in 5-6 class
IV+ and V drops in the middle.  Big holes, big undercuts, big moves, big
fun.  

Can't wait to get back there.

Cheers,
Erik



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Erik Strahler
Graduate Research Assistant
IceCube @ UW-Madison