The next morning we took our camp down and portaged the rest of our gear to the put in. The Swiss men were still camped there and had decided to fly back to Mayo as one of them was not feeling well. They gave us some much-appreciated fresh apples and Ritter Sport chocolate bars, and the guys helped them portage their gear back to the lake.
Put in on the Snake River
Eventually we were all packed in and hit the river.
Ready to go
And we're off
The first day's paddle turned out to be more challenging than we expected; water levels were quite high, and there were some tricky narrow channels with sharp corners and difficult to avoid headwalls.
Both the raft and our inflatable kayak were pushed into one headwall, the raft bounced off, but when we hit the wall, Leo and one of our drybags fell into the river. We didn't capsize and Leo jumped back into the boat, we collected the bag, and were on our way.
More seriously, Birgit fell out of the raft and got caught up in some netting and dislocated her finger. The netting was immediately removed, but she had to paddle all the way to the end of the trip with her injury.
With the portage, it was a short day on the river, and after 10 km and two hours we reached our first camp at the mouth of Reptile Creek,
Campsite on Reptile Creek
It was a sunny day, so we were able to dry everything out after yesterday's rain.
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