Adventure #3 White Water Rafting on the Snake

For the July 4th weekend I went up to Wyoming with some friends for some SWEET white water rafting on the Snake River. We were about 30 min. south of Jackson Hole in Alpine, WY. We headed up on Friday, the boys got one run in that afternoon, had our own fireworks show that night, and camped out at the cabin. On Saturday all 26 of us were ready for some fun. We got 3 good runs in. The 1st was freezing, the 2nd pure bliss with the sun out, and the 3rd super windy. I'd do them all over again though :) These photos are from the Friday run. We had much bigger rafts on Saturday.

As many of you know, I have a small inflatable raft that I like to take out in random places like ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, oceans, swimming pools, basiclly anywhere there's water :)

So I've never been white water rafting before. It doesn't even compare to my own small raft (although I still love it)! It's a blast! I recommend you ALL go. Here's how intense the rapids are, just the names say it all! The Big Kahuna, Taco Hole, Lunch Counter (we theorized on this...maybe the rapids are so intense you throwup your lunch?). I almost fell out a time or two, but fortunately some dude caught me and pulled me back in. On the Big Kahuna my whole side of the raft fell out.

And of course rafting is not rafting if you don't have wars with each other and the other rafts. Yes, we all threw each other off and splashed ruthlessly. Good times! There was a spot on the river with cliffs where we stopped and jumped off, maybe about 15-20 feet high...just had to go! There were some professionals taking photos, but this is as good as it gets (way too expensive to buy). I'm on the left, second row back in the first photo and on the far right in the second photo.