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| In the Upper Canyons |
We had a pleasant night, and it would turn out to be another sunny day. We headed out reasonably early and pushed our way through the upper canyons. The rapids were fun, and not too difficult. We pulled over for lunch below Windy Creek, and then headed down river into the first "lake". At the end of the lake was Battle Bar, where we set up camp for the night.
I had never camped at Battle Bar before. It's a very different camp. The beach is small and rocky and not very conducive to a big group. Most of the camping is about 50 feet above the river, and you have to climb a steep trail to get there. One of the advantages to Battle Bar being a rarely-used camp is that it still had an outhouse, so we didn't have to carry the groover all the way up there. Speaking of the groover, we tried out a new "groover key" system on this trip. I put the toilet supplies (paper, etc.) in a red drybag. We leave the red bag near the kitchen, and when someone needs to go to the groover, they take the bag with them. When someone wants to go to the bathroom, they first have to get the "key", which avoids embarrassment.
This evening was my night for dinner. The meal was jasmine rice with panang salmon curry with spinach and green beans. I had pre-cooked the salmon, and brought bottled curry sauce. This made it much easier to cook the meal. I had brought more than enough rice, but my cooking partner wasn't sure, so we ended up cooking about twice as much as we needed to. We also had nan (Indian bread), which we heated on a griddle. At one point, I burned a couple of fingers, which was painful. Luckily, ice really did help. Only one finger blistered, and the blister eventually went away.
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