Lower valley fun

I ended up kind of bullying my brothers and their wives into going backpacking/ camping for 2 nights up valley. They had already been planning to do this independently and privately, but I talked them into all going together. As this transpired on Monday afternoon, and we were to leave Tuesday, there wasn't enough preparation ahead of time to be able to make it a proper Gans Sibling Expedition so in the end, Heidi and John and Rhodri stayed in the lower Stehekin Valley with Grandma Bucky and Grandma Debi and the kids.

Grandma Bucky on the front porch with the yurt in the background

They all went river rafting one afternoon, which looked like a lot of fun!

Rhiannon in her wetsuit

Rhodri, Grandma Debi, Heidi and John with the troops

Action shot of the back of the raft from Aunt Heidi's perspective

Good times on a sunny day in the North Cascades

Group photo as they rafted out into Lake Chelan and were towed across to the shore.