z) We scouted Horn, Granite, Hermit, and Crystal. On that day, Glenn rowed David’s boat because David was having some shoulder problems, and Wesley rowed the kitchen boat. We all went over the left horn at Horn rapid, and it was fairly easy. Granite looked much harder. Mike, Glenn and Ted went far left and Wesley and I went down the left side of the right tongue and squared up with the laterals on the right. We all did fine. I let go of one of the oars when I needed both hands on the other one, but I got the other oar back when I needed it. Granite looked hard for the kayak, but went well for Ted. The fifth wave looked bad at Hermit, and I was afraid that the others would want to sneak it and that I would feel obligated to do the same in order to avoid putting the group at risk of having to deal with a flip. But we all wanted to run the meat except for Ted. We ran the left side of the tongue right over the biggest wave at the top. Ashley rowed Mike’s boat for Hermit. I was not all that square for the fifth wave, and almost washed out, but was able to hold on to the side of the foot well with my foot and stayed in the raft. We snuck Crystal on the right and that seemed like the only real option there. It was not a difficult sneak.

aa) We hugged the right shore at Bedrock and had most of the passengers walk that rapid. Wesley rowed my raft and I rode with him and held a paddle just in case I needed to help, but we all safely avoided the feared left run. Deubendorff was big but did not give us any problems. The big hole in Upset was washed out. We scouted Lava on the left and all decided to take the far left run along the left shore. Mike, David, Glenn, and Wesley were at the oars and Ted kayaked it. Everyone took the planned route except that Wesley got pulled right near the top and went down the left tongue between the ledge hole and the hole at the top left. Michelle, Maya, and I were passengers in the raft that Wesley was rowing. The raft turned around 180 degrees and Wesley stood up, turned around, and sat on the front hatch to maintain forward visibility as he went down the rapid. All of the rafts did fine in Lave. As described above, Ted flipped twice but rolled up and stayed in his kayak. He was also grabbed by another hole that he surfed in right side up for a while and then escaped. As usual, we felt a sense of relief after getting through Lava, but we were careful not to get over confident and do something foolish.

bb) Unnamed Rapids and Riffles - Although we did not have any trouble with the harder rapids, some of the easier rapids and the unnamed riffles got a lot bigger with the high water. Ruby is an example discussed above. Many of the riffles were as big as the fives or sixes. On the other hand, some of the fives or sixes were as easy as some of the riffles. Generally, the higher flow make it easier to get down the river. And it did not seem like the eddies slowed us down any more than at lower flow.