digi2ns-
yes, it was a go pro.
my brother in law had i mounted to his paddleboard.....
he's been paddleboarding his whole life, literally, grew up on a lake...
and he could lap us TWICE in our kayaks....! LOL


Kenb123
answers:
1. yes, go to the link for the map, it shows the stations and the pickup spot.
2. they allow camping, overnights, multi day, but we were only doing the day trip.
since it was thanksgiving, we got an extra hour and half  to play with, that's why we did all the hikes.
3. you can rent several different styles. ours had seats. they were Old Town Otters, you can google them.
4. yes, you bring your own. we rented dry bags (did not bring our own on the trip) and stuffed them with 'goodies'.

That looks like great fun! Was it really shot in the year 1012?  :) 

Janet


That looks like great fun! Was it really shot in the year 1012?  :) 

That's why the nature looks untouched by civilization Janet.  Time travel can be a wonderful thing.

heheh

janet, you are the first to even notice that!

heheh, making an edit now.....
how embaresking

if it HAD been shot in the year 1012, would we have seen brontosaurus?

batsbrew


if it HAD been shot in the year 1012, would we have seen brontosaurus?

Have to rewind about 150 million years for that one Bats. 

heheh

that comment was kinda tongue-in-cheek




Forget Extinct: The Brontosaurus Never Even Existed


http://www.npr.org/2012/12/09/166665795/forget-extinct-the-brontosaurus-never-even-existed

trip:
the trip we did was a day trip.

if you lived there and had your own kayak or paddleboard you can actually put in at the take out, for free, paddle up stream to the dam, turn around and come back down.

here's a link where we got our gear:
http://www.kayaklasvegas.com/

they have lots of options.

our group that put in, was only 8 strong....
3 guys together, another 2 guys, and our group of 3....

everyone else took off immediately, but we went to the very first hot springs.....

went inside, took some grainy video, after it cooked our brains, we came out, and our boats were now deep in the water because the dam had done another release, the water level rose, and they had warned us to always pull our boats up out of the water and tie them off......
and we, being cocky out of towners, said 'eh'......

and sure enough, in the video, as we're walking across the rocks back to our kayaks, you see how far out into the water they are...
i don't show the whole clip, but you can hear us all chuckling at our mistake (and good luck) that the paddleboard had been heavy enough to weigh the one kayak down, and the other had more or less stayed put.

LOL

needless to say, we did not leave the boats like that again.


we did 3 canyon hikes, and 3 hot spring pools, which has some deadly amoeba in it that they warn you not to get 'in your nose'!!
- About 130F and 100% humidity.

"Warning - Naegleria fowleria, an amoeba common to thermal pools may be present and could enter through the nose causing a rare infection and death. Do not dive into pools, splash water, or submerge your head."

the rest of the day, we were all singing "VIVA...... AMOEBA" , in our best elvis voice.


other links:
http://www.birdandhike.co...ss/BlackCyn/_Black.htm


take-out area:
http://www.riverlakes.com/hot_springs.htm