Oil and Water Project

We had the opportunity to visit both the Colter Elementary school and the Teton Science School in Jackson Hole, WY.

Teton Science School is a newly built private school in a wonderful atmosphere.

You could tell that the crowd of kids at Colter Elementary School in the Jackson city limits log some serious days up on the mountain. This school seemed to be stock full of young rippers. We even got the chance to go paddling with some of them afterwards with the Jackson Hole kids club.

New Tires, Oil Change, Work on the Veg Press, New Latches, Tent Overhaul, Upper Lounge Tent Designed……Just a few things on one of our only days free in Montana!! A special thanks to Tom, Andy, Gracie and Amber for coming down to help out.

Ty was having flashbacks at his home school. It was really fun to have Bill and Mary Jane (Ty’s mom and dad) come and watch our presentation

You can actually slide the fire truck up and down along the route

Tyler Bradt takes the Belt Buckle
2006 Champion

This was the best water level and weather for the event ever. Seth has been putting this event on for 7 years now! There will be more photos to come.

The next morning after the event, our clutch went out 2 miles from laney’s house…

We called our friend Brett that had come to our event the night before, and he came to tow us into Rapid City.

Our boys from the Chevy Truck place had seen us on the news the night before, and stoked to give us a hand! Finding the replacement part has been a different story….

Brett invited us to stay at his house with his wife. It turned out that he was one of our biggest fans, having followed all of our kayak trips in the past. We had a fun time hanging with them last night!!

It is definitely hard being stuck here in South Dakota, sorry to all the kids in Bozeman that missed our visit today! Rest assured that we are still in VERY high spirits, and looking forward to getting back on the road!

The night time event at the Gas Lamp ended up being our biggest fundraiser yet. There were literally all kinds of people there.

Thanks Laney (Seth’s sister) and Gus for having us at their house, and hosting the event!

Definitely a jungle gym! We arrived to a lunchroom full of cheering kids. It was hard not be excited and inspired. Thanks a ton for such a warm reception!!

The winning posters:)

Bill Gange brought us over to the Duluth Biodiesel Coop, and filled us up.

Lots of soy fields and mind mills for our diagnol descent of the state of Minnesota.

We drove all night to make it in time for the Grandview Elementary School this morning.

We hooked up with Ryan, Jason and Joe, and got to paddle one of the all time classic runs, Devils Track on the N. Shore of Lake Superior, MN about 2 hrs up shore from Duluth. We drove 22 hrs from Toronto for one day of paddling.

Tyler even claimed a first descent, with Ryan following right behind for a second!

Minnesota has the most concentrated amount of quality runs in the smallest area of anywhere we’ve seen. Each one spills right into Lake Superior.