Day 13 - August 30: Prairie Creek

For the third day in a row, it was sunny!  Which was awesome, because we had a lot of paddling to do, and it was much more pleasant without the threat of raining hanging about.  

This stack of rocks is known as the Library.  Gord declared that Jim should go into the cave for a picture.  

Also!  We saw a bear!  It was a very stupid bear, mind you.  It decided it wanted to climb a cliff.  Needless to say, bears are really lousy climbers (penguins aren't much better, but we're also slightly smarter, so we wouldn't have tried to climb the cliff in the first place).  This particular bear spent the entire time it was in sight trying to climb the cliff.  It even fell into the river a couple of times, it was ridiculous.

We paddled through Second Canyon, which wasn't as dramatic as Third Canyon, but still pretty impressive.  It had some pretty interesting shapes going on at the tops of the cliffs.

Not to mention some pretty fantastic alluvial fans.  

Apparently Prairie Creek didn't have any firewood, so we stopped on the side of the river before we got there and we all picked up canoes full of wood.  It looked VERY ridiculous watching all the canoes on the river with super long sticks sticking out on both sides.

When we got to our site that night, we were informed that we would be having a surprise layover day.  Also, that night we asked Luke and Dan what the rest of our trip would look like, and it turned out that they forgot that there are 31 days in August.  Meaning that we were actually in way less of a hurry than we thought.