Arrival in Salt Lake City
Most of us arrived in Utah, flying into SaltLake City. This Mormon city centred around its Temple and Tabernacle also has a surprisingly vibrant gay scene. By chance we arrived at the start of the Gay Pride celebrations. Two of us went to a gay night at a local night club where they were auctioning the underwear of the local water polo team for charity - with the owners still in them !!!
There were six of us on this trip: a small enough number for for us to hire a people-mover car. to get us the hundreds of miles between Salt Lake City, and the two rafting centres . These were Vernal near Dinosaur National Park from where we were to raft the Green River [...]