Last night was cold. Clear nights in the high-altitude desert during winter will do that, I guess. But still: cold.

It was made a bit worse when Iselin discovered at 2am that her side of our double sleeping pad was flat. Thankfully, I brought a backup, so I blew that up quickly and she crawled back into her sleeping bag and warmed up until morning.

It wasn't any warmer after getting up. The wishy-washy buckets (where one washes their hands, which we do all the time) had a thick lazy of ice on top of them. Brr.

The major rapid of note today was House Rock Rapid, which is a bit difficult -- the river wants to push you left into this huge hole (and maybe the one after it, too), so you have to do everything you can to stay moving to the right.

We all made it through, and then we had the Roaring Twenties -- roughly 10 miles of back-to-back medium-sized rapids. For those who are new on the oars (or who haven't been in a few years ..), it's a great training & warmup ground.

We hit the beach at Shinumo Wash campground in the early afternoon. However, the location of Shinumo Wash meant that we were not in the sun, and it was cold. As such, I didn't feel like exploring Silver Grotto, where you get cold & wet in order to see pretty things.

Instead, we hung out and tried to dry off various pieces of gear (like our river gloves). Then we had a big fire after dinner & before bed.