San Joaquin

I remember joining Paul on Patterson Bend in the mid-1990's. Ours may have been one of the earliest trips after the first descent by the Holbeck and Stanley crew years prior. We attempted to portage Binocular through the boulders and poison oak on the left, wearing drysuits in the horrible heat. 'Ugh' as Paul puts it in the river description. So we ran the second two-thirds or half of the rapid, not because we wanted to, but because the alternative was heat stroke.

Richard