The very useful guides on the websites of the rafting companies have all sorts of information about life on the river, one TLA that they don’t explain is ABC – Alive Below Crystal. Crystal rapid is one of those that all the guides out here have the outmost respect for and I can see why. Its not all that technical but it has a lot of water going though a very small area very quickly. Again I was in the paddle boat and we ran though it without major incident but I really think that if something did go wrong it could go very wrong.
The rest of the afternoon had a series of rapids collectively called the ‘gems’ as they are all named after gem stones. A lot of fun as they were all very good rapids (and only one person out of the boat though the day). Unfortunately we were faced with a strong headwind which made the day very very hard going and my arms were burning by day end.
Just before camp we stopped and saw a waterfall in a side canyon, the difference to the landscape by a little flowing water is just starterling.
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