Most of the river accesses require off-pavement driving. From wide gravel roads to smaller potholed paths, there was lots of opportunity for the Mitsubishi Outlander to show its stuff. With Gravel Mode acti- vated we had excellent grip on all surfaces are were able to get into the tightest river accesses with ease. The timing of the event coincides nicely with spring run-off, but does sometimes overlap with the last snowfall of the year. This year, the weather co-oper- ated and the sun was more abundant than cloud, so we didn’t get a chance to play with the Outlander’s S-AWC Snow Mode. On Day 1 of our adventure, one of our group had to jump into the water and rescue a baby moose that had gotten separated from its mother and washed through a rapid. It was taken back upstream and left near momma. Speaking of momma, ours had a blast
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