Skagit River Raft Trip

We took an 8 mile raft trip on the Skagit River this past weekend. We drove about two hours north of Seattle into the North Cascade Mountain range. This was more of a float trip than a wild river rafting session, there was only one short section that was slightly tricky but it was nice being in a guided raft. We were in a 9 person raft – Debbie, Catherine and I were the best paddlers by far. The Asian family of four we shared it with was nice, but not very good paddlers. Caroline started out not very happy but after about 15 minutes she got in the groove of things and had fun. We managed to make the whole trip without any one falling out of the raft - but at the take out point Debbie lost her balance getting out of the raft and went all the way under! After drying off we drove a little farther into the Cascades to Diablo – a large dammed reservoir, and then turned around and headed home. We were starving so we stopped for hamburgers at the Red Robin. They do this float trip in the fall as well, this is where the eagles come to winter so there are supposed to be thousands in this stretch of the river. I want to see it, apparently they put you in wet suits in the fall.