So this camp site is basically where you go if you want to get shot in a Coen Bros movie #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqT03i1CIAAuH6-.jpg
I actually like the place though. This is Annie, she's in charge. From OK. Steve, next door, has red suspenders. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqT1YCGIMAAFFOp.jpg
Day 6: obstacles. I paddled up to this grate, which reminds me of the evil washing machine from the⦠instagram.com
"There are farmers who are going to commit suicide ... You're working with a gun to your head." George Delgado http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqWkFBVCIAEF_Jo.jpg
Curious fact: these almond trees are grafted to peach tree roots. Better in this sandy soil. #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqWlOybCYAApEVD.jpg
Can I just say how weird it is to see this streak of blue in these dusty fields? Delta-Mendota canal #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqWmMsACUAADaLQ.jpg
"Stay alive by staying out." #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqWmnuACIAInDUE.jpg
Another bridge, this one sinking so much (bc of groundwater extraction) it's almost underwater. #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqXTqA8CEAEZOru.jpg
I'm in the middle of the CA Central Valley. Avocados from DR and Peru. No cantaloupe but this is the capital for that http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqX0nwzCYAAe-p-.jpg
Dooooon't think I can boat through that. Water flowing backwards. At the river's switchboard #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqb6YOWCIAAnQ8o.jpg
Here's where I am. Going to be walking a dry section of the #endangeredriver for 30 or 40 miles http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqll1ZhCAAEV2JO.jpg
Dairy cows. I really love dairy cows. Dropping off water along our hike for the dry section of #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bql9nK1CUAEnCea.jpg
Here's @agleader , a 6th gen farmer and Berkeley English major who showed me around last night. #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmHAhECAAAyHUF.jpg
We went to a restaurant where that business was once headquartered #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmI-brCYAATS0e.jpg
Farmworkers the only ones out here. We have similar hats. they have a toilet truck. Bloody hot #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqmbl6UCMAAHNW8.jpg
"There's the river!" Told it's only here because the dam is old and leaky #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmcAn8CYAA3PCy.jpg
Well, it's fertile ... #endangeredriver http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmcNd4CQAI9AK2.jpg
Still navigable but not moving. Walking along a levee and canal feels lame but there is now way to walk in the river http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqmdUBGCcAAr1bZ.jpg