White water rafting on the Snake River

I have been wanting to return to Jackson Wyoming since i was 14 when i was first introduced to the snake river as a boy scout.

As a boy scout i spent 3 days on the river traveling over 50 miles.

Last summer i tried to get some friends together to go, but things always kept coming up last minute and the trip never happened.. But not this year. I, along with Malory and Christy organized a weekend get away to Jackson to get down the river. 4 guys and 4 girls... perfect combo. I got my buddy from UVU Jake and his buddy Scott to come and they were way fun to hang out with. We drove up together, and the girls all drove up together in a truck.


We camped out on Friday night and had to get up at 7am to make it to the rafting place on time. All together it was a 21 miles trip down the snake river near the Gran Tetons. The first 13 miles were just scenic floating where we just chilled and looked at the surrounding beauty and an occasional beaver, or bald eagle.

After that and lunch we jumped on a bus that shuttled us down to spot to do white water rafting. that was 8 miles and about an hour long. I got to paddle on the front left side. We had 16 people in our raft. It was fun to get wet every time we hit the big rapids that were like big waves. Lunch counter, and Big Kahuna were great along with the rest.

After the rafting we went into Jackson and walked around town and did some souvenir shopping and got some pizza. I ran into Gav from "So you think you can dance" on the street and said hi to him for a sec. He just got voted off a couple weeks ago, and i noticed him because he was on the news just the night before i went on the trip. So that was random.

We later made it back to our camp site and gathered around the fire and had a good time keeping warm and roasting hot dogs and marshmellows. The girls had their own tent, and the boys had their own tent.. and there was a bathroom nearby with running water, so it wasn't too bad.

Then early sunday morning we were sadly on our way back down to Provo. We (the boys) went the scenic route near Bear Lake, and through the Logan Canyon. It was way beautiful.


Overall the trip was a blast and wouldn't have changed anything.. No drama existed among the guys.. just a little with the girls since they sort of seemed to keep ditching us, but it wasn't too bad. Now i can't wait to make another trip somewhere exciting.

Lost at work

I've been gone for awhile and haven't been able to keep anyone posted on what i've been up to lately. Sorry to all of you avid readers who have been going through Justin withdraws.

The only thing i can say is that WORK has been keeping me busy and not giving me time to think about blogging.

I've been averaging 60+ hours a week all around utah and other states. Last week i was in New Mexico for 5 days seal coating some lds church parking lots in a bunch of different cities. One city Los Alamos, we got finished up and were going to spend the night there and saw that there was institute going on, so we attended that.. then we found a Best Western hotel, and the lady there was extra nice to me and the 2 other guys i was with... we were tired and didn't think much of the price, but she seemed more than happy to help us out. Turns out she put us in the suite. $200 dollar night. So i haven't said anything to my boss, but it's all good.

After the New Mexico trip i had a day off, so my boss took me and the guys from work out to th lake for a few hours to get some wake boarding in.. that's about the only fun thing i have done in the past couple of weeks.

This week i spent a few days working in Wyoming doing more church parking lots in little po-dunk towns. But now im back in provo for a little while.. doing work at BYU.

Dave and i have been searching apartments to live in.. We're looking for a 3 bedroom place for us and his little brother Jake. We've checked out a few places, but we're still not possitive where we want to move yet.

Other than that, just trying to work as much as i can to get some money saved up for next semester.