That’s our river

Shaun Ripley | Gunnison River, CO

The Gunnison is my favorite river. It’s got all the cold waters, you get to fish, you get to kayak, you get to float, you get to do whatever you want. It’s fantastic. We spend many, many hours a year on it. We camp, we do overnights. So, that’s our river. Taking people from California on a wrestling camping trip. They have no idea how to camp. They know how to wrestle but they don’t know how to start a fire, it’s great.

I’m 27, so [I’ve been going out on the river] 27 years. My first birthday was actually on the river. No, I don’t think they put me in. I was a little too little. But we got to camp and we got memories of bears, memories of raccoons taking our food, we do hunting out there, so it provides everything that we need. Once to twice a year, I make it back but yeah, absolutely, we go as much as we can.

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