Upper Jumps
Location Description
207 photos
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The group sorts gear and gets ready for the descent into...
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Joel jumping, with Mike in the foreground.
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Mike inspecting a pool he thinks he can avoid.
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Mike tiptoeing around a pool.
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John leading the way down a rock chute into a pool,...
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Joel and our crazy group leader Michelle, who we had to...
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John, pushing his backpack along the river. As it turns...
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John, Mike and Michelle, contemplating the best place to jump.
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Joel, taking the plunge, backpack on.
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Mike, hanging out below one of the many water slides in...
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John, right before jumping.
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John, caught in mid-air.
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Someone rappelling through a waterfall.
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John and Joel, near the top of a jam in the river,...
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John climbing a boulder to find a rappel bolt.
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A water slide!
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Mike going down the water slide.
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Mike at the bottom of the water slide.
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John, eating river.
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John and Joel packing the rope.
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John and Joel packing the rope.
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Joel packing the rope.
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Poorly positioned camera for group photo at the parking...
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Eliah works through a bouldering problem while Tracy,...
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Julia enjoys the 58 degree water early in the morning.
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Eliah rides a water slide. Also pictured: Julia, Aditi,...
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Monica leads the pack.
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Ben (arms raised), Jill, Joel and Julia (foreground).
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This was definitely the biggest group I had ever been a...
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Colin. Tracy and Eliah in the background.
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Aditi brought her Vibram Five Finger shoes, like the...
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Ben spots a Lady Bug colony.
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Monica on a big rock.
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Colin, scouting a way down.
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Monica.
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Ben with his Safety First Chevron shirt. Ben works at Chevron.
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Jill, Colin, Julia, Aditi, and Eliah working a small...
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A person jumping in the water. This may have been me,...
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Joel, in his classic seated position jump pose.
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More splashes.
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Tracy jumping in the water. Julia and Eliah look on from...
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Julia tries a kung fu sort of pose.
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Julia.
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Aditi, mid-air.
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Jill, bracing for impact.
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John, jumping off the 25 foot jump.
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Ahh! Water! Cold!
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Colin, preemptively tapping his helmet to let us know he's ok.
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Tracy, in her arms-up pose on the 25 foot jump.
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Aditi after jumping 25 feet.
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Ben, 25 feet off the deck.
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John wearing Jesus boots.
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Bracing for the splash. I think this has to be Joel.
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Rupert the duck.
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Colin with his duck.
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Colin, much more serious. With Rupert the duck.
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Ben.
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Aditi.
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Jill. Cold hands. Gloves are a really handy (ha!) thing to have.
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John, in 6 mm of hooded wetsuit. Joel and I were...
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John and Ben (Tracy in the background).
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Ben hopping over some rocks.
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John and Ben in a wild blackberry patch.
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Mmmm.... delicious wild blackberries.
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Ben's berries.
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Ben with some blackberries.
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Our lunch spot. Monica and Eliah warm up on the dry...
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The rest of the crew joins.
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View downstream from our lunch spot. When we woke up...
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Everyone eating lunch.
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Monica eating a soggy sandwich we bought at Port O Subs...
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Monica and Aditi relaxing during lunch.
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Monica and Aditi at lunch.
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Taking naps, or warming up in the sun. I think a bunch...
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Monica.
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After lunch I lent Jill my neoprene gloves which I think...
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Joel watching as Jill climbs up a boulder to enter a...
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After disappearing into that hole in the last picture,...
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Colin watching as Eliah rappels.
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Some pretty hanging gardens near this first rappel.
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Eliah at the bottom of the first rappel.
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Aditi on the first rappel. Tracy and Colin watch from above.
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Aditi and Eliah swimming at the bottom.
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Aditi and Eliah find a rock to warm up on while the rest...
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Aditi and Julia watch folks rappel down from the lunch rock.
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Tracy swimming.
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Eliah, Aditi and Julia.
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Monica on rappel while Colin and Jill look on.
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Monica swimming off the end of the rappel.
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The water was surprisingly clear here. Lots of sunshine....
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Monica swimming for land.
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Jill on rappel. Ben, Joel and Colin watching from above.
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Tracy, Jill, Eliah, Monica, Aditi, Julia and Colin (swimming).
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Close up.
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Waterfall at the bottom of the lunch rock.
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Joel at the bottom of the next jump with John, Monica,...
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Monica rappelling down while others look on.
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Monica further down. This was a bit tricky not to swing...
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Ben taking the plunge.
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Eliah in mid air.
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Aditi slipped on rappel and ended up in the falls.
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John, Aditi, Monica and Tracy move down river through a...
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Joel leads a bunch of others down a more riparian...
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John about to hit the water. I think I am leaned back...
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Tracy jumps in the water. Ben was photographing from...
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Not sure who this was but it looks neat.
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The whole crew minus photographer (Ben) at the top of...
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Aditi, Julia, Eliah, Jill, Tracy and Joel. oel is...
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Colin, stacking extra rope in the rope silo through a...
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Joel, rigging to go on rappel.
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Julia.
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Jill, Aditi and Tracy watch Joel rappel.
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Monica rappelling. Good view from up here: you can see a...
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Colin checks over Tracy's rigging.
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Tracy goes on rappel.
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Tracy rappelling sans gloves.
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Keeping balanced...
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This is always awkward...
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Aditi starting the second rappel.
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Aditi rocking the Vibram Five Fingers.
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Julia starting to rappel.
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Julia looking very serious. She actually had a good time I think!
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Really!
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Joel gives a fireman's belay from the bottom.
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Ben!
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Folks swimming in the pool.
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Colin, jumaring back up the stuck rope. Apparently the...
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Colin, working his way back up. The way this works is...
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Colin got the rope free, re-rigged the rappel,...
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Ben jumping off something or other.
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Joel, Tracy and Ben at the top of the next jump/rappel.
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The sun disappeared behind a thick layer of clouds and...
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Aditi on rappel.
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Eliah, Monica and Joel.
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Tracy jumping.
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John and Monica.
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At this point, the canyon started to get dramatic again....
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The crowd waits at the top of the next big rappel -...
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Monica and John, at the top of the rappel through the waterfall.
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Tracy, staying afloat.
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This is the view from the top of the rappel looking...
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Here is Eliah, rappelling into the whirlpool.
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Eliah, most of the way down.
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Having rappelled through here a few times already, I...
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Aditi rigs up and Joel double-checks her.
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Aditi on rappel.
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Aditi rappelling into the waterfall, wearing Vibram Five Fingers.
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Monica, I think?
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Jill with Rupert the Duck.
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Julia on rappel.
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Julia.
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John getting ready to jump.
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Tracy?
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Tracy again?
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Jill, about to go on rappel.
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Jill on rappel.
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Ben!
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Ben, waving for the camera.
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All the people downstream, in the pool that they end up...
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Colin.
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Joel, getting ready to jump.
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Joel jumping.
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Joel.
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Joel swimming on his back and soaking up some of the...
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This part of the canyon is characterized by long swims...
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This next obstacle involves climbing on top of the 15 ft...
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Monica carefully climbs up the boulder to reach the single bolt.
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Monica, posing for a photo.
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Clockwise from top left, Colin, Eliah, Ben, Julia, Tracy...
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Big fat tarantula!
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Zoomed in shot of Mr. Tarantula.
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Next, Joel and I donned our neoprene hoods, snorkel and...
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Fun to search, but alas the search and recovery effort...
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Jill!
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Julia! I think we're waiting while Colin and Monica test...
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Golden hour of photography in Upper North Fork of the...
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Julia, warming up out of the water.
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Waiting at the last jump.
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The crew at the bottom of the last jump.
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Julia, jumping.
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Here is a water slide that leads us out of the last of...
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John jumping off the last jump.
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Ben jumping.
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Aditi on a water slide!
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Waiting in line for the water slide.
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Aditi, after the water slide.
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Eliah running the water slide. Joel at the left.
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Monica.
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Monica water sliding!
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Joel.
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Beautiful Sierra granite.
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John and Monica at the end of the technical section.
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D'oh! Keep getting water on the lens.
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On one of the last few swims before the exit.
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A little bit better color in this one.
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Monica, finally at the exit.
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The crew at the end of Upper Jumps / beginning of Lower Jumps.
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Aditi's Five Finger tan line.
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Ben posing with PG&E's release of liability sign.
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Signs. Endless entertainment for shotgun enthusiasts everywhere.
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John, after the hike back to the road.
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John and Ben.
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Unfortunately Ben's dry bag was not so dry.
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So, the worker bees headed back that night, and Joel and...
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Hmm, I suppose I'm probably NOT getting enough...
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Mmmm... i10805.TXT.
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Joel and I spent the morning reading guide books trying...