150miles there, 3 hour drive.
We hike down the 1.25 miles to the river & start to follow the river. We get to a place where it looks like the trail ends & should cross the river. We cross & I get back on the bank & say "Hey, lets stay on the trail so we don't miss it"...Somone else said "Lets stay in the river, its nice" & everyone agreed.
So we go down river for 30 minutes, Toni (a friend) fell twice & I fell once. After I fell I was thought "screw this, I'm getting outta the river, I bet we already passed it" So we all get out (Toni complaining) & I have people just leave their junk there while Ted & I go check back up the river a bit for the campground we're lookin for. 5 minute walk... found it.
We setup camp & get ready to go swimming. We head out to the river & look up stream & guess what...we are EXACTLY where I got on the bank & wanted to stay on the trail. Yay, Tyler was right, but everyone else wanted to go get hurt in the water...cool.
Swimming was intense! Found a good hole where it was shoulder deep.
That night Dan & I went down to the river to get water to put out our fire...as we were headed back his sister (Tracy) yelled be careful, there is a rattle snake. We come back & decide to kill it. Tracy is all sappy saying "let it live, it was here first" yada yada(crazy liberals)...we kill it. I figure if we're trying to protect nature we SHOULD kill it, it only makes sense. Survival of the fittest...if we don't kill it we're surrendering & might be attacked later on (it was 4 feet from our tent that I was going to sleep in)
Pretty good times over all!
Yay for killing a rattle snake!
