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favorite Mexican Restaurant just before heading out. While at the
restaurant, one of the managers appears to have a heart attack. I
help out a little making sure he is still breathing and rolling him on
his side when it seems he's going to vomit. The paramedics and
fire department arrive pretty quickly and take over, leaving me to calm
my nerves and eat.
We head up to Dinosaur National Monument to pick up the last needed permit. Hooray! We leave in 70° weather and camp that night in below freezing temperatures and snow falls on us the next day as we pick up the permit and head north to Green River, Wyoming to get a few supplies, fishing license, and to scout the resupply. And then on up to Pinedale, just in advance of a blizzard that shuts down Interstate 80. There's no snow in Pinedale. We watch the weather channel and despite the cold predicted, we try to head north as there is no more snow forecast. We go past Cora onto a dirt road with a road closed sign. We desperately want to get to Green River Lakes - our scheduled put in. So we ignore the sign but soon bog down in snow. Still desperate, we go off road and upon trying to go back - slumph into a snow bank from which we have to dig ourselves with the help of some passing strangers. Looking over to the river as we continue, we see very little water and lots of rocks. We turn around and head down to a bridge where we feel we can launch. We sleep and the temperature drops to 17° Fahrenheit. It's too cold and that seems dangerous to us. We confer and decide to go to my brother's house in Idaho.
The trip seems cursed at this point. But we finish the drive to my brother's and stay there for a few days then drive back and put in a little lower than we originally planned at Warren Bridge. The picture to the right is of the Wyoming Mountains near the put in at Warren Bridge in Wyoming. |
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