In 2011 my family and I took a trip out West in an RV. My family consists of my parents, older brother Patrick ( now a sophomore at Madison), younger brother Declan ( now a sophomore at MUHS), and my younger sister Nora ( now in 8th grade). We were all there for this trip just younger. On our trip one of the main attractions we stopped at for a few days was at the Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole Wyoming. The Tetons are a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming. While in the national park we visited a horse ranch where we rode around the Teton range, hiked around one of the lakes at the base of one of the mountains, fished, and went white water rafting.
The white water rafting is where the story begins. It was Day 8 Wednesday June 29 2011. The family climbed into yellowstone and headed to the Mad River Boat Trips in Jackson Hole, for the beginning of our excursion. There we were given wetsuits due to the freezing temperature of the water, 38 degrees cold. We piled into a bright green school bus along with 30 or so people and we were shuttled to our drop in point, the Snake River. It was here that the small anxieties began to …show more content…
Relatively simple. Rule Number 2: Feet downstream if you fall out of the boat. This is to protect you from having your foot caught then dragged underwater and drowning. Rule Number 3: Keep paddling while going over rapids. This is easier said than done. If you have ever crest over a wave, it is very hard to contact water with your paddle. Gavin gave us the report of the river, record high amount of water, 38 degrees and 8ft tall waves. Holy shit what have we gotten ourselves into. We thought that but we did it anyways, because we were going to complete it, come hell or high water (literally). We got into our life vests, which we were told that if they were comfortable, we were unsafe, and our helmets. The helmets helped protect us throughout our head-cracking adventure, hopefully which did not
The white water rafting is where the story begins. It was Day 8 Wednesday June 29 2011. The family climbed into yellowstone and headed to the Mad River Boat Trips in Jackson Hole, for the beginning of our excursion. There we were given wetsuits due to the freezing temperature of the water, 38 degrees cold. We piled into a bright green school bus along with 30 or so people and we were shuttled to our drop in point, the Snake River. It was here that the small anxieties began to …show more content…
Relatively simple. Rule Number 2: Feet downstream if you fall out of the boat. This is to protect you from having your foot caught then dragged underwater and drowning. Rule Number 3: Keep paddling while going over rapids. This is easier said than done. If you have ever crest over a wave, it is very hard to contact water with your paddle. Gavin gave us the report of the river, record high amount of water, 38 degrees and 8ft tall waves. Holy shit what have we gotten ourselves into. We thought that but we did it anyways, because we were going to complete it, come hell or high water (literally). We got into our life vests, which we were told that if they were comfortable, we were unsafe, and our helmets. The helmets helped protect us throughout our head-cracking adventure, hopefully which did not