Alright… Back to business.
Hehehe who am I kidding? You just wanna see some photos!
Well, here it is, a photo-journal of
my first Trip down the Yampa canyon through Dinosaur National Monument
yay!
Entering the Yampa Canyon |
So I left this one really big so maybe you can see why i took a picture of rocks and shrubberies look closely! |
Lori Looking upstream from our first camp at Big Joe. Something interesting is happening… |
Looking downstream from camp at Big Joe |
Looking toward the canyon walls river right, behind camp |
The amazing number of natural amphitheaters in the canyon… the echos you can play with are awesome. |
Looking back out toward the river, about 1/3 of the way up the canyon. |
No tweaking of colors at all on this shot, these contrasts come out exactly as they were. The changes in the color of the rock and sand as we hiked was like living in a fantasy world. |
This pretty cactus was loving the hot, sunny weather much more than I. Playing with depth of field is fun… especially when the shots come out so well without needing to crop anything! |
The little guy I shared my clifftop shady spot with |
Chillin in the shade, enjoying the view from Wagonwheel. |
Panoramic shot from the top… if you look really close river left, bottom left of the photo, you can see tiny blue dots, those are our boats. |
Hello undercut! looking back upstream. I was on top of that mountain a little while ago! |
I seem to have the habit of attracting foam in the eddies each night. |
Early morning moon set over camp as the sunlight encroaches. |
Self Portrait… |
Steamboat Rock and Echo Park, at the confluence of the Yampa and the Green We pulled over on a beach near the rock for a drum circle and some fun with echos. |
The Confluence! can you tell which river is which?? Why do they call it the Green, I wonder? |
Coming into some of the Lodore formations, (the purpleish rocks on the left)
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Lodore Formations a little closer up |
Exiting the Yampa Canyon, entering the long meandering Island Park last day. |
Well that’s what i have for pictures, this go-’round,
but I assure there shall be more as the summer goes on!
I still have the 4 day Gates of Lodore trip to experience, and well, I’ll be doing both trips often enough!
There were so many things I wish I’d had my camera for this trip tho, like the last night, when we did shadow puppets on the cliff wall across the river! or the Extreme screepile Bocceball when the green ball hit a rock and exploded! yes, a memorable trip it was.
Admittedly, I felt a bit of a brat through part of the trip.
There is a LOT of flat water, and I had let myself come in with the expectations of challenging whitewater, so I did get a little disappointed.
But the more I look through my photos, the less it bothers me. I will have my challenges, there’s always Gauley season in September!
Anyhoo… next trip is on the 25th, until then, it’s fun with power tools!
Matt and I are retrofitting and rebuilding some oar rigs so we have shiny new-ish equipment to work with all summer!
Maybe I’ll be a photo-nerd and take some pics while we’re doing that too…