You know you’re a boater when there’s no place else you’d rather be than a river.
• January isn’t time for making resolutions but for filling out river permit applications.
Setting shuttle = road trip
• All your towels smell like the river no matter how many times you’ve washed them.
• A road trip means setting shuttle.
• Some of your favorite places begin with “Satan’s” (e.g. Satan’s Toilet Bowl, Satan’s Suckhole, Satan’s Gut etc.)
• The “fabric of you life” is neoprene or nylon.
• You have Cam Straps in all glove compartments, backpacks and assorted spots in your garage.
• You’d rather sleep on your Paco Pad.
Scrape, suds, rinse, bleach REPEAT….
• You check the snow report not just for snowfall but also for future river flows.
• You have z-like tan lines from your Chaco straps.
• You really do pack the kitchen “sink.”
• Your idea of acronyms aren’t LOL, WTF & OMG but rather CFS, PFD & FIBArk.
• You keep your raft in the garage or driveway and your car parked on the side of street.
• There’s nowhere else you’d rather be than on the river.
