The next day we hooked up with KB and Luke at Strongwater and caravanned to the Alberton Gorge. As we pulled into the parking lot of Triple Bridge we kicked up a whole bunch of Wild Turkeys while walking to the bridge to take a look at the water level. We decided to launch our SUPs at Sandy Beach, a 1/2 mile up from Triple Bridge. Our first rapid was at Triple Bridge with a long whitewater section and a standing wave.    (Bryce on a wave train.)

TJ jumps into the Clark Fork
After a 22 hour drive and a stop over in Salt Lake City and Indian Falls, we arrived in Missoula on thursday night. The next morning we woke up to a couple inches of snow on the ground and 20 degree temperatures. So Bryce and I brought our friend Timmy Bascom to the Clark Fork River for a river run.

The Saeman Brothers T.J. and Bryce began a blog of their long trip across the United States and Canada. Their purpose of their trip was to promote stand up paddling throughout the country traveling to destinations to paddle flat water on lakes and rivers to charging down class III rapids in the Rockies. Here is the beginning of their account:

Bryce paddling down a small set of rapids.

We are both Hobie team riders and have packed up our 2005 Toyota Tundra to the brim with: 5- Hobie SUPs (2- CP Stringers, 3- ATRs), 6- Hobie carbon paddles, sleeping bags, pillows, 2- bags of clothes, 2- spearguns and diving equipment, 2- large boxes of fishing and hunting equipment, a couple thick wetsuits, booties, gloves, and whole lot of other stuff. We are planning on being gone for over a month traveling all throughout the United States and Canada. In the first leg of our adventure we passed through 6 states: California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and  Idaho, until we finally arrived in Missoula, Montana. While driving through Utah, we found a couple ponds to paddle our SUPs and relieve some driving stress. After a long day of driving we stopped off in Salt Lake City, Utah to have dinner and spend the night with our Uncle and cousins.