We stayed upriver at 9-mile bar at Lees Ferry many many times and I was constantly writing about our adventures. On this trip, I took dry ice and packed in some gourmet vanilla bean ice cream and made a pine apple upside down cake in a dutch oven, three days into our adventure. Joe had brought about two cases of wine from around the world, my favorite was a Chilean Muscat after our dinner wine. These trips were off scale with each other trying to out do each other. You could only reach this place by boat, 9 miles upriver in a 1,000' winding deep canyon. Everything you wanted to camp with had to go in the boat. Those trips pegged the fun meter.