
[2014-colorado]
It had been raining on and off throughout the night, but the tiny drops would evaporate almost as soon as they fell, so we postponed putting on the fly since it was so hot. At 4:50 it seemed the rain was finally getting serious so we got up to put the fly on, but alas it only lasted fifteen minutes or so. It really wasn’t such a loss of sleep after all though as Scott and I struggled to sleep with the hot temps all night. The clouds acted as a blanket keeping in most of the almost one hundred degree day temp. So when Scott’ alarm went off at 6:30 we were already awake. We were not quite as boisterous as the guides we met at 8:30, but the rapids and slightly chilly water helped with waking us up the rest of the way.
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