Green - Labyrinth-Stillwater

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shane -- Wednesday, April 13 2005, 3:56am

The leathery guy sitting there is Brad from St. Petersberg FL. We met him the night before heading into Cataract and gave him food and spirits in exchange for his story. He claimed (and I belived) that he had bought an old canoe, sprayed in flotation and rafted the Green from Three Lakes to Mineral Bottom in 3 weeks WITH NO PERMITS! He went commando style, hiding his camps and canoe in the tamarisks and floating by the ranger stations very late or early. He was drinking water directly from the Green and had nothing but Ramin noodles and Tops ciggeretts we we met up with him here on our way to Cataract. Later in the night after, beers, steak, beers and scotch he passed out almost exactly where he is sitting in the photo. We found his sleeping bag (he only had 1 dry bag) but no tent, so we stuffed him and and nailed a steak into the hang loop. We never saw him the next morning, he was up and hiking and did not return before we continued on.

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