The Journey

Wednesday evening guests have departed. Linny and Tom have returned from their hike with Kobae and it's the time of the year Tom dislikes the most. Time to take Linny back to Salt Lake for the school year. Normally the round trip takes ten hours but when Tom returns to Hunter Creek at 4:30am it's flooded. The water is ripping, three to four feet deep, and twenty feet across. Tom returns to Moab and visits four touring companies to see if anybody has a jet boat going down the river that can drop him off. There's nobody. Tom heads to the Pot Ash boat ramp to see if he can catch a private ride down and finds 15 guys preparing to depart but after an hour or two they are still preparing to depart. By then it's been five hours since rain and Tom decodes he has a decent chance of getting across the creeks. He passes thru Hunter easily, has a few issues in Kane Creek but eventually gets across and returns to Base Camp sixteen hours after he left.