Our "almost" roadtrip in the Blast Shelter

[35thAV]

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Well this adventure started off with a lovely pain in the trailer! Friday afternoon I dropped the Blast Shelter on to the back of Bart and with in a few minutes I made the right turn out of my driveway headed towards the river for our annual Methow trip.
That's a when I looked back in my mirrors and realized I had no lights on the trailer. We pulled over, checked the plugs, cursed the wiring, and sized up the situation. Apparently the Blast Shelter's harness was just a wee bit too short for big Bart and I manged to not only pull the harness out of the plug but some where along the line the wires have also been severed as well. What a swell start.

After some messing around with the wiring in the parking lot for about an hour or so (time flies when you're having fun!) I decided to admit defeat and take the Blast Shelter home and thanks to Stacy we were able to grab her seriously sweet tent trailer for the weekend and only 3 short hours after leaving the house the first time we were finally on the road.

The camping at Alta Lake State Park was great as usual and the Sweet River Bakery in Pateros once again didn't disappoint with their legendary granola recipes, big -A! fresh cinnamon buns and lattes each morning on the way to the put-in
Oh yeah, and the rafting was pretty good too. The water levels were better than normal for the Methow and at significantly higher flows that we ran it at last spring. The rain & snow stayed away from us until we hit the road and were heading home.
So aside from now needing to rewire the Blast Shelter before next weekend's run all was good for this whitewater roadtrip.

Here is the link to the original blog post with some pics: http://blastshelter.blogspot.com/2010/05/methow-river-05-10.html

[S. Heisley]

Those are some great pictures! Sorry to hear about your problems with the wiring but glad you were able to 'save' the trip by borrowing another trailer. It looks like you had a 'blast' anyway.

[Miriam C.]

Great pictures! Sure wish I could do that....Well not the wire issue......done that too...... Maybe next time!

[35thAV]

Woohoo! I fixed the trailer harness and I'm good to go for this weekend

I hope I didn't just jynx myself!