Floating the river at the end of summer

Every time I drive across the overpass spanning the Green River, I look briefly towards Expedition Island and hear the river’s siren call.

The opportunity to spend a lazy afternoon blissfully floating down the river is one I’ve longed for throughout the summer. Work and life scheduling always got in the way; and as the summer weekends slowly dwindled, I quietly feared the chance would escape me this year. Luckily for me, a late summer weekend opened up.

I’m not sure if this is just true for the group I go with, or it its true for a floating trip in general, but the time it takes to prepare see...