Setting up the scene: Memorial Day, Spring 2008, Gallatin River Canyon, House Rock. We casually decided to go to House Rock so we hiked over on the north side of the river, and wished that we would see kayakers, thinking we wouldn’t because the water looked so dangerous. Besides when we left town it was cold and windy, once we started getting close it was raining and frosting pretty far down into the canyon.
We saw some kayakers but we were pretty far from House Rock, I still tried to keep pace with them for awhile. The water was probably moving at a high cfs and they were rocketing through the rapids so I missed the money shot and sitting at the rock for awhile decided that those three were the only ones adventurous enough to brave this day. So we started hiking back toward the jeep. Only to spot the opportunity and decided to book it back to the site.
Big Water.
The shot I wished for pretty much.
And then he realizes he made it through the gauntlet, but there are big rapids up ahead.
More fellows out there.
It was fun running, trying not to miss the shot that the day offered. I wish I could put these shots in a magazine or the daily paper, but this blog may just have to do, hopefully some people get to see them. I do have high resolution shots.