Junior Guides Raft Camp

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Jr. Guides Raft camp!

A favorite. It’s a three day raft camp aimed at teaching some raft guide skills to kids. That’s little Margot in the guide seat in the first two photos, with the white helmet.

Hazel in the black helmet in the last photo.

There were several times during my kind of nuts travel day yesterday where I was questioning my own judgement about trying to squeeze raft camp into our summer, but I’m super glad we did. Girls had a fun day, great people here, and I had a fun run in my raft with good people while the girls were elsewhere on the river with camp.

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