Some friends have started a tradition of doing a week-long raft trip in May, and I have been lucky enough to get to go for the past 3 years. The first year we ran the John Day River in Oregon. The second we ran the Owyhee River, also in Oregon. The plan this year was to return to the Owyhee, with the Grande Ronde River (Oregon) as the backup. As you may have guessed from the title of this article, we ended up going back to the John Day. The Owyhee was too low for our tastes and the Grande Ronde was too high. The John Day was high, but not uncomfortably high, so that was our final choice.
There were 7 people in our group, each in their own boat: 4 catarafts, 2 rafts, and an inflatable kayak. I rowed my Aire Ocelot cataraft. We drove over on Saturday and set up our gear. We camped at the put-in and left in the morning at around 8:30. With the fast current, we made it to camp by lunchtime and spent the day playing dominoes and relaxing.
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