My brother in law likes to plan big family canoe trips down the Colorado river. Of course he always wants to camp on sand bars as he did when a scout, but they're pretty hard to depend on for large groups! The last time at everyone's insistance, he said he had scouted out two regular campgrounds and off we went. At the first stop, like Duane, we had to share with a big boating group playing loud music, drinking and setting of fire works!!! That was till the Reservation Police showed up on ATV's and started handing out tickets and asking for camping permits. As we had all been told the camping would be free, few of us brought much money along and we thought we were in for trouble. But when they heard a bunch of our party were Eagle scouts they cut us a deal. The second campground turned out to be a picnic area only, so we ended up camping along a railroad embankment and trestle. Paul said as long as we kept to the left of the big sign that said "No Camping Beyond This Point" we were perfectly legal!?! As land was scarce and the water rose at night, I slept surrounded by water in two folding lawn chairs, waves lapping at my feet. Not real fun at the time, but these kind of trips make the best memories. Mark Sanders *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jul 16 2003 - 03:04:31 PDT
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